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The Sales Hiring Playbook by Steli Efti

Education — A practical guide to building a sales team [Sales, Startup Books, SaaS]
Educationest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
13
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 18 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 18 probesavg response 1506 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
close.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Sales Hiring Playbook by Steli Efti's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 13 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Three Scientists and Their Godseducationsimilar73%40.00.0● live
Facebook News Botentertainmenttag-overlap67%0.00.0■ inactive
Vacation Fundfinancetag-overlap58%8.0-32.0— unverified
SaaS Open Mic: LiveChat CMO on reaching 14K customers with no sales teamothertag-overlap58%40.00.0● live
KeyBudeducationsimilar53%40.00.0● live
Gmail email extractormarketingtag-overlap50%8.00.0— unverified
Splitter A/B Testingmarketingtag-overlap48%40.00.0● live
Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Useducationtag-overlap48%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:04Z200close.comcloudflare1075alive
2026-08-17 13:45Z200close.comcloudflare1065alive
2026-08-10 00:10Z200close.comcloudflare1329alive
2026-08-08 04:45Z200close.comcloudflare1610alive
2026-07-31 15:43Z200close.comcloudflare1051alive
2026-07-26 17:37Z200close.comcloudflare1352alive
2026-07-18 14:20Z200close.comcloudflare1452alive
2026-07-14 09:11Z200close.comcloudflare1434alive
2026-07-04 16:15Z200close.comcloudflare2308alive
2026-07-03 00:54Z200close.comcloudflare2267alive
2026-06-24 13:51Z200close.comcloudflare1543alive
2026-06-23 13:01Z200close.comcloudflare1355alive
2026-06-21 21:21Z200close.comcloudflare1912alive
2026-06-20 19:26Z200close.comcloudflare1324alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Sales Hiring Playbook by Steli Efti · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-sales-hiring-playbook-by-steli-efti · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.