Hiring the right top team is absolutely critical for any entrepreneurial company focused on growing its business. Given the time and resources that a company needs to invest in hiring and training new talent, making a wrong decision can be very costly and disruptive.

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Though most university-level entrepreneurship programs have some basic features in common, there is so much variation it's hard to identify a typical curriculum, let alone an exemplary one. While diversity is good, this field needs more of the consistency in core concepts found in other academic fields.

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Creating effective sales compensation plans is part art and part science. One size doesn't fit all, but should emerge from a disciplined process and lots of dialogue between management and the sales team.

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