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AI Compensation Trends: The Real Cost of Top 1% AI Technical Talent

The battle for AI talent continues to heat up: Top AI/ML scientists and researchers are now commanding staggering compensation packages that far exceed those of traditional technical roles like software engineers.

Early-Stage Sales: Four Tips for Startups
Five Steps for How GenAI Startups Can Break into the Enterprise: Observe.AI’s Playbook
7 Golden Rules for Generative AI Apps: A Playbook from Early Winners
How to Build A Winning Sales Strategy: Lessons from Harness CRO Carlos Delatorre
Refine Your Business Idea: Our Elevator Pitch for Menlo Fellows

A Talent Partner’s Advice on Job Seeking in a Down Market

Landing a new role in this market can feel daunting. But it’s not all doom and gloom for job seekers.

Back to Basics: Fundamentals for Building Breakout Consumer Companies

Economic downturns force us to get back to basics: The cost of new capital and low valuation multiples—even for top-performing public companies—force startups to make substantial progress per dollar to get a term sheet, much less an up round.

Top Sales Exec Shares Tips on How to Manage and Scale for Growth
How to Win With Product-Led Sales
How Software Companies Win: Rethinking Org Structure, Product Teams, and Priorities With Airtable’s Ilan Frank
Use Pinecone to See Which Parent Most Resembles Your Kids

The Five Requirements of Enterprise Readiness

Ilan Frank is a productivity and collaboration product veteran with more than two decades of experience scaling software.

Delivering the Goods: Opportunities in Vertical Supply Chain
Building Great Products into Great Companies, With Albert Wang
10 Insights to Guide Product Managers, CEOs, and Founders
AI Compensation Trends: The Real Cost of Top 1% AI Technical Talent

The battle for AI talent continues to heat up: Top AI/ML scientists and researchers are now commanding staggering compensation packages that far exceed those of traditional technical roles like software engineers.

October 2, 2024Jordan Ormont and Kandace Elam
Early-Stage Sales: Four Tips for Startups

Raph Parker is an advisor to companies on their $0 to $10 million ARR journey. Here are four of his most valuable GTM tips for navigating early-stage sales.

June 5, 2024Naomi Pilosof Ionita
Five Steps for How GenAI Startups Can Break into the Enterprise: Observe.AI’s Playbook

Observe’s success in moving to the enterprise provides a playbook for both startups and enterprises on how to leverage GenAI to win together.

May 16, 2024Steve Sloane
7 Golden Rules for Generative AI Apps: A Playbook from Early Winners

The first AI-native enterprise apps broke from the pack, distinguishing themselves from the wave of AI apps that emerged last year following the rise of OpenAI and Anthropic.

April 17, 2024Matt Murphy, Steve Sloane and Derek Xiao
How to Build A Winning Sales Strategy: Lessons from Harness CRO Carlos Delatorre

We recently asked sales veteran Carlos Delatorre, Chief Revenue Officer of Harness, to share his best practices for leading a sales org with 25 sales leaders from across the Menlo Portfolio as a part of an event series we call “GTM Titans.”

February 21, 2024Matt Murphy, Jordan Ormont and Kandace Elam
Refine Your Business Idea: Our Elevator Pitch for Menlo Fellows

Developing an elevator pitch is a powerful exercise for helping entrepreneurs sharpen their thinking around a potential new business idea. Coming up with innovative ideas is a challenge in itself, and founders are often caught spinning their wheels, struggling to bring clarity and focus to their vision.

May 4, 2023Michelle Aguinis
A Talent Partner’s Advice on Job Seeking in a Down Market

Landing a new role in this market can feel daunting. But it’s not all doom and gloom for job seekers.

February 2, 2023Jordan Ormont and Kandace Elam
Back to Basics: Fundamentals for Building Breakout Consumer Companies

Economic downturns force us to get back to basics: The cost of new capital and low valuation multiples—even for top-performing public companies—force startups to make substantial progress per dollar to get a term sheet, much less an up round.

January 18, 2023Shawn Carolan
Top Sales Exec Shares Tips on How to Manage and Scale for Growth

We held a fireside chat recently with Dali Rajic, COO at Zscaler, and invited senior sales leaders to discuss how to scale a SaaS business with world-class process and leadership.

December 13, 2022Matt Murphy
How to Win With Product-Led Sales

Everyone wants the best of both worlds: low CAC with product-led (PLG) and high ACVs with sales-led (SLG) growth models.

November 8, 2022Naomi Pilosof Ionita
How Software Companies Win: Rethinking Org Structure, Product Teams, and Priorities With Airtable’s Ilan Frank

The software business has changed dramatically—a transformation accelerated by the shift to remote work and hybrid offices many of us experience today.

July 26, 2022Grace Ge
Use Pinecone to See Which Parent Most Resembles Your Kids

In March, we announced our lead investment in the Series A for Pinecone, a semantic search database powered by vector embedding search.

July 18, 2022Tim Tully
The Five Requirements of Enterprise Readiness

Ilan Frank is a productivity and collaboration product veteran with more than two decades of experience scaling software.

July 12, 2022Grace Ge
Delivering the Goods: Opportunities in Vertical Supply Chain

Last year brought supply chain issues into sharp focus: The ongoing pandemic and geopolitical unrest combined to buckle traditional systems for global trade and logistics, highlighting the need for innovation.

July 6, 2022Feyza Haskaraman
Building Great Products into Great Companies, With Albert Wang

For our latest Menlo Ventures Product Assembly, we hosted a virtual wine tasting with special guest Albert Wang.

June 15, 2022Grace Ge
10 Insights to Guide Product Managers, CEOs, and Founders

I had the honor of co-hosting a Menlo Ventures Product Assembly virtual event with Jen Kessler (Klaviyo’s new VP of Product). Jen was the CEO and co-founder at Bizzy before...

February 25, 2022Grace Ge
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