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Ask HN: How Do You Hire Sales People?

I operate a tech enabled business in the CPG space, and am looking to build out a sales team essentially from scratch to grow our book of retail accounts. Right now we rely on the founding team to execute sales, and have done so successfully (7 figure revenues) but we have run out of bandwidth.I'm curious to hear from your experiences: How have you gone about sourcing and hiring your first...

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Re:Taiwan to donate 100k masks per week to US on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:04PM (#22618130)
Here's an easy tip for trying to understand a claim that you can't justify. Read the article.

"As Taiwan and the U.S. step up their cooperation on the development of drugs and vaccines to battle the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), Taiwan has pledged to donate 100,000 face masks per week to the U.S., while the U.S. is reserving 300,000 hazmat suits for Taiwan."

That's literally the first sentence.

Re:Apple's warning is a bad omen for Wall Street bulls on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:04AM (#18813196)
you seem to fundamentally misunderstand the market. The worry isn't that apple as a company is going to cease to make a profit. The issue is that given the new information on how apple is performing, people would like convert their shares into cash given what they can get versus what they expect to receive in the future by retaining those shares.

Is your argument that in a rational market apple reporting worse than expected performance should have no affect on the value of the company?

It's one thing to pinpoint why the specific information being released is inconsequential, or to argue that the magnitude of the market's reaction is disproportionate or moving the stock in the wrong direction, but your argument seems to be simply raise the question. You're essentially responding to information that says maybe apple isn't as great of a company as we all thought it was yesterday by saying "apple is a great company."

Re:Uber posts $1B loss on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:49PM (#18456937)
I know this comment risks coming off as snarky, but I mean it genuinely: Do you honestly believe the only advertising channels that exist are TV and in person? Is it possible someone on a tech-oriented site is this unaware of the advertising arena?
Re:Distributed kitchen service Pilotworks is shutting down on Monday October 15, 2018 @11:35PM (#18226214)
They did so with an incredible lack of respect for their customers.
They are also lowering the bar for knowledge required to successfully operate the probe:

"Computer vision algorithms ingest footage from the handset’s camera and detect the probe’s location in real time, directing users through augmented reality (AR) prompts precisely where to position it. (Butterfly calls it “Tele-Guidance”.)"