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6 Tips on How Human Resource Leaders Can Boost Sales Team Performance

Vantage Circle

Though every sales team member works towards maximizing customer conversion and retention, they do not share the same responsibilities. Besides, they can build a strong talent pipeline and work towards motivating the team to improve and acquire leadership positions in the firm, thereby ensuring talent retention. What's more?

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

If you don’t take these time periods into account, you could be overestimating or underestimating CAC and as a result making some terrible operating decisions. Instead of turning off the new channels we tried in March, we would probably make the decision to scale them. Dollar Shave Club is a subscription ecommerce business.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

Why onboarding is so important for retention/churn. Part one of this conversation focuses specifically on the aspect of user acquisition for growth, and then we cut off and go into the aspects of growth for user engagement and retention, in the next episode. Why offline products are so compelling for acquiring customers.

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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

One of the reasons I’ve been excited about being a professional investor is the ability to apply my skills as an operator. The reason is that it’s really really hard to scale acquisition – only a few, like viral loops, paid marketing, and SEO can bring you to millions or tens of millions of users.

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Idea Management: How to Create a Systematic Approach to Capturing Bright Ideas

Vantage Circle

But as you scale a business there’s a risk of losing that dynamism. This is good for morale and will improve employee retention, but it’s especially important as we start to see more of Gen Z in the workforce. At this point, your idea management system is overlapping with your day-to-day operations.

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