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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

TechCrunch

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. Here they are.

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Quantum Metric raises $200M, now valued at over $1B, for its digital product design platform

TechCrunch

Quantum Metric , which provides a cloud-based service both to build digital products and then test and fix them in real time to improve how they work, sold by the company as Continuous Digital Product Design, has picked up $200 million in funding, a Series B round that values the company at more than $1 billion.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. Pick vanity metrics with little or no correlation with business value and high amount of noise. What are some things you can do?

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Guide To Creating Candidate Personas For Tech Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In such times, maybe it’s not a bad idea to go back to the drawing board and redefine ‘who’ you are looking for. Step 1: Understanding Developer Candidate Personas. Developer personas are an off-shoot of this oft-used strategy; with a few tweaks and changes to make it engineering-friendly. All on board? Let’s begin!

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Beyond Metrics – Why Human Capital is Key in Founding and Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

Evaluating founding and leadership teams of portfolio companies and acquisition targets has become crucial for investment and operating partners. As businesses grow and adapt to shifting market demands, the strength of the leadership team often dictates a company’s ability to scale and succeed.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging. Additionally, 84% of leaders believed their organizations had strong teamwork compared to 60% of team members.

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