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Experienced Heads and Cheap Legs: How to Leverage Mentoring and Advisers at a Startup

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Among the 99 problems that startups have, here are a few: - I have advisors and don't know how to make great use of them. - Frankly, it's not cost effective to pay a senior person to run a Twitter account anyway, and in the beginning of a startup, it's not clear you need a full time senior person. Hire someone cheap who can hustle.

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What we’ve learned from working with AI ScaleUps

Insight Partners

Drawing on Insight Partners’ experience working with AI startups since 2014 — with $4 billion invested in the sector so far — Managing Director Lonne Jaffe discusses artificial intelligence-related lessons learned, and best practices brought to life, including the importance of explainability and the promise of next-gen MLOps stacks.

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Antler’s ESG evolution in the shifting landscape of Venture Capital

Private Equity Wire

With a diverse ecosystem of 8,000+ founders, and 950+ portfolio companies spanning 30 industries, we markedly impact the startup landscape. Proactively integrating sustainability into our operations, culture, and stakeholder engagement, we leverage our scale to positively influence the broader VC ecosystem.

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Connecting the Sellers of NYC's Salesperson Community

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Is it me, or are the top CTOs in NYC much more of a startup household name than the folks at the top of the sales organizations? The number of tools available to sales groups has skyrocketed--so keeping up with best practices seems more of a challenge than over. Who are the top sales leaders in NYC? So where are they?

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How CEO Sahil Aggarwal created a product he believes every business on Earth will (eventually) use

Insight Partners

Aggarwal became a senior product manager at VC-backed firm Gigster and simultaneously started his own product development company for early-stage Indian startups called WinTerrain. In turn, Rattle helps teams execute processes consistently, aggregating critical data and ensuring best practices are followed.

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Reverse Engineering a Career

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I run into a lot of people trying to switch careers and join a startup. Just start looking for blog posts on "10 SEO tips for startups" or "How to write a marketing survey". Now you need some practice. Then again, how many lean startups are out there with lots of stuff to do without the time to do it.

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

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Now anyone could leverage the work of others, see how the code worked, and use what they needed freely. That’s what Docracy is doing, and I believe it is some of the most important work that any startup is working on right now. They suggest changes and discuss best practices.

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