It's a holiday week in the US, so please excuse a slightly brief edition of the Mattermark Daily. We'll publish tomorrow, and then see you again next Monday, November 27th!
From the Operators
Jennifer Rettig of Looker shares the three actions founders can use to recruit a stellar executive team, emphasizing that utilizing the existing team has the most leverage and is often under-used in "The Three Secrets to Executive Recruiting I Learned at Apple, Yahoo and More"
Morgan Leigh Davies of Lattice outlines five important factors that can actually make employees happy at work in "What makes people happy at work?"
Parth Sethi of Managed by Q notes the two paths marketplaces can take to build user trust, and emphasizes that to be successful, they must be able to answer "How likely is it that trust in a seller would influence the decision making of a buyer during a transaction?" - read more in "Marketplaces and trust"
Preethi Kasireddy shares the career path, learnings, decisions, and desires that helped assist in the decision to leave Silicon Valley in "Why I’m leaving Silicon Valley"
From the Investors
Ben Wiener of Jumpspeed Ventures answers why many startups struggle with product/market fit by explaining that no matter how unique a solution is, the customer must desperately want a solution in "Why is Product/Market Fit So Freaking Hard?"
Brad Feld of Foundry Group shares a framework he uses to determine the value of and his taste for the activities on his calendar - this is incredibly simple and seems to provide an enormous amount of value - in "Good Bad Like Dislike"
