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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

From the Operators

Amy Volas of Avenue Talent Partners has the solutions to unreasonable sales targets and not knowing how to hire salespeople in "How To Fix 2 Of The Biggest Issues Plaguing Startup Sales Right Now."

Tim Retting provides his perspective on the video pitch from Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, to Casey Neistat in "This was one hell of a pitch"

Shane Snow, author of Dream Teams shares the difference between purpose, vision, mission and strategy for your company in "Three Key Elements Your Company Story Needs"

Marco Zappacosta of Thumbtack spoke with First Round on his strategy for hiring experience executives in "Assembling an Executive Leadership Team is Daunting"

From the Investors

Sarah A. Downey of Accomplice covers the pattern of startup stages in today's investment landscape in "Company Stages"

Haje Jan Kamps of Bolt.io deep dives into the economics of an electric scooter ride-sharing company in "How to understand the financial levers in your business" 
 
Bethany Marz Crystal of Union Square Ventures explains what happens when you explain venture capitalism to a group of 14-year-olds in "Venture Capitalists, circa 2032"
 
Matt Turck of FirstMark shares his view inside the world of AI research and what may be coming down the pipe from the AI research labs in "Frontier AI: How far are we from artifical 'general' intelligence, really?"
 

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