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Performance Appraisal: The Ultimate Guide

AIHR

Have the tools to set future performance goals – The goals and benchmarks your company is achieving now are a good indication of what goals to set in the future and at what pace your business can achieve them. As you can see here, they use a five-point scale mapped on three competency levels.

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Solving Mobile Growth & Retention with Andy Carvell, ex Growth at SoundCloud

Brian Balfour

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. It actually wasn't too bad at SoundCloud, by industry benchmarks, Andy told me. Andy’s team took a more nuanced approach to industry benchmarks, looking at not just industry averages, but at specific categories.

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High Growth: It’s Not Just For Unicorn Startups Anymore

15Five

According to Rand Fishkin , the founder of the successful marketing software company, Moz , “the biggest danger for subscription businesses is to start scaling up effort, money, people and time into marketing and growth before you have high enough retention and a low enough churn rate”. Click To Tweet. Step 1: Talent Acquisition.

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Skills Gap Analysis: All You Need To Know [FREE Template]

AIHR

It identifies the skills that employees need but don’t yet have to carry out their job or perform certain tasks effectively ( Antonucci, Ovidio, 2012 ). From there, you can set goals and define benchmarks for getting the workforce where it needs to be. Organizations can experience gaps in both hard and soft skills.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

The reason for this is that the steps for starting and scaling a new startup share many of the same skills as investing in a new startup: 1) First, we seek to understand the existing state of customer growth – including growth loops, the quality of acquisition, engagement, churn, and monetization. There’s a reason for that.

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