First Hire Series: Operations with Jamie Valenti-Jordan

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Startup, Food, Business, Beverage, Cpg, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This is the first episode in our new "First Hire" series where we'll talk about making first hires in marketing, finance, sales, and operations, and today's subject is hiring for operations. When is it time to make the leap to a full-time operations person? When should you use a consulting firm? How do you find the right fit for your company? Here to help us answer these questions is Jamie Valenti-Jordan, CEO of Catapult Commercialization Services. Catapult is a team of experienced food industry professionals focused on helping emerging and growing brands with their technical & operational development and scaling needs. Listen in as Jamie covers the difference between setting up your operations and running your operations, how to find the right operations person, navigating when to implement software solutions, how to manage an operations person or agency as a founder, and more. Episode Links: Jamie's LinkedIn Catapult Commercialization Services website Jamie's email: jamie@catapultserv.com Show Links: Join the Startup CPG Slack community (7K+ members and growing!) Follow @startupcpg Visit host Jessi's Linkedin or website Questions or comments about the episode? Email Jessi at jessi@startupcpg.com

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0:00.0	It is certainly one of the first hires that most people will make will be someone into operations
0:08.6	because most entrepreneurs, almost by definition, are not operations folks. You need to preserve that
0:14.5	passion, be able to kindle it, and not burn yourself out running operations. Welcome to the
0:19.4	Startup CPG podcast. I'm your host, Jesse Freytag.
0:22.6	I'm really excited to share with you all that this is the first episode of our new
0:26.7	first hire series, where we'll be talking about making first hires in marketing, finance,
0:32.7	sales, and operations.
0:34.2	And today's subject is hiring for operations.
0:37.2	When is it time to make the leap to a full-time operations person?
0:40.8	When should you use a consulting firm?
0:42.8	How do you find the right fit for your company?
0:45.2	Here to help us answer these questions is Jamie Valenti Jordan, CEO of Catapult Commercialization
0:51.1	Services.
0:52.1	Catapult is a team of experienced food industry professionals focused on helping emerging and growing brands with their technical and operational development and scaling needs.
1:02.0	Listen in as Jamie covers the difference between setting up your operations and running your operations.
1:07.0	How to find the right operations person, navigating when to implement software solutions,
1:13.0	how to manage an operations person or agency as a founder, and more.
1:19.1	Hi, Jamie.
1:20.1	Welcome to the show today.
1:21.3	How are you?
1:22.4	Doing great.
1:23.2	How about yourself, Jesse?
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