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Hiring sales people and want to get the right mix of skills and cultural fit? We share the tips and tools on how to do that for #startups and small-medium biz

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Please overcommunicate and repeat everything at your startup because your team unfortunately cannot read your mind.

[Arjun Mahadevan (Mr. LLC 🇺🇸) @ArjunMahadevan]

She started a dating app called Bumble in 2014 that let women make the first move and became the youngest self-made billionaire in the world.

Nearly 9 years and countless Bumble weddings and babies later, she's celebrated over 1.5 billion first moves.

Here are 4 pieces of advice from the queen of dating, Whitney Wolfe Herd:

1. 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦. 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴, 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴, 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴? 𝘐𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦, 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵.

2. 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 2011, 𝘐 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦, 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯 '𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳' 𝘪𝘯 𝘓.𝘈. - 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘴. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬.

3. 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺, 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.

4. 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘫𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘭𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.

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[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Startup rule of one:

Solve one painful problem.

For one specific group of customers.

In one really exceptional way.

[Andrea Bosoni @theandreboso]

A lot of solo founders told me they feel like failures because they’re struggling to grow past $2-3k MRR and that’s insane because they’re doing great compared to most people out there.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Your job as a startup founder is to always be selling and always be marketing your product because distribution is king.

[BOLSTUR @BOLSTURcrew]

If you search for ‘sales fear’, most of the content says salespeople fear rejection.
Honestly, that’s a load of bs, likely written by someone who’s never worked in sales, or at least not a successful salesperson.

Here’s our hot take 👉
https://t.co/tX3qyV8G0z

[Zain Kahn @heykahn]

Yale's most popular class in it's 320 year history:

Psychology and the Good Life.

Here are 7 lessons from the course to help you live a happier life:

[BOLSTUR @BOLSTURcrew]

Know your metrics, know your customers, be disciplined with your sales efforts and things might just turn out rosy after all ☀️

[BOLSTUR @BOLSTURcrew]

In these kinds of times, it’s easy for sales leaders and teams to feel despondent and downgrade the forecast for the year. Yup, a flattening economy sucks, but unless you’ve got 💯 market share, there’s still room to grow and hit those targets. It’s a back to basics approach.

[BOLSTUR @BOLSTURcrew]

@byosko Send

[Jon Brosio @jonbrosio]

The value of creating content cannot be understated:

• The world learns about you
• You learn about the world
• You learn about yourself

And your whole life changes.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

It’s perfectly okay to “launch” your startup multiple times you know.

For example Airbnb “launched” 3 times.

No one noticed or cared.

Then everyone noticed and cared.

So expect your “launch” to flop.

Then learn, iterate, and keep building.

Until everyone notices and cares.

[Mat De Sousa @DsMatie]

Don't add a new feature.

Contact more partners.
Improve your onboarding.
Write a blog post.
Record a Youtube video.
Write 3 tweets.

Don't always build your product. Sell it.

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

Probably the best thing you'll see today.

In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.

The results 🧵

1/22

[Maren Bannon @Maren_Bannon]

Little known tech fact?

The average age of a successful startup founder is 45.

The college drop out in a hoodie is more myth than reality. It's never too late to start something.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Most people are looking for a "green light."

- Buying books, watching videos, and endless learning.
- Searching for the switch to give certainty to taking a leap.

The truth is - the next steps are never guaranteed.

You are the "green light." Just Go.

[BOLSTUR @BOLSTURcrew]

Think the chatty, outgoing, social folks are the best at sales? Think again!

The latest blog is up and talks about this in more depth. Maybe the person you think you want to hire, isn’t “the one” after all 🤔

https://t.co/CwKcXkKkme

[Alex Friedman 🤠 @heyalexfriedman]

You know the quickest way to piss off A+ employees?

Not firing C employees quick enough.

[Melissa Widner @melissawidner]

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.” Voltaire

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Bootstrapped startups are just built better because there’s just zero room for inefficiency capital spend.

Also you have to solve the hardest problem first which is how to get paying customers fast otherwise you’ll die.

It’s like playing the game on the hardest mode possible.