Tomasz Tunguz Partner at Redpoint Follow on Twitter Personal Blog Connect on Linkedin My Comments: I follow Tomasz across all social channels and his content around SaaS metrics are awesome. His content is very data-driven and super helpful for early stage founders. Jason Lemkin General Partner at Storm Ventures Follow on Twitter SaaStr Blog Connect on Linkedin My Comments: […]
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Startup Spaces: Spiderbook’s San Francisco HQ
According to AngelList San Francisco has about 10,356 companies based in San Francisco — and I’m willing to bet there are hundreds launching every day here and of course a ton that are not listed. From what I have heard office space is very high demand and startups find unique places to call home, especially during the early […]
Europe Trip 2015 – Madrid
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Founder Tips: The Technical versus Non-Technical Founder
Yes, I am going to say it outloud: engineers and sales people generally don’t understand each other and might even dislike each other within many parts of the world – especially Silicon Valley. At least this has been my experience over the past decade. The funny part is that they need each other. Yes, consumer […]
VC Spotlight: Rich Wong of Accel Partners
[iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/5WKI2uanP1I” mode=”normal” autoplay=”no”] Rich Wong is one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists and partner at Accel Partners in Palo Alto, CA. For you who are not familiar Palo Alto, CA is where companies like facebook, Survey Monkey and so many others were founded. Accel Partners is well known for their investments in Atlassian, facebook, DropBox, […]
Business cards: important or not?
I’m actually not sure that it’s ok that we are having this discussion in 2015. I mean come on, we’re supposed to be cruising around in flying cars and the fact that the physical-paper business cards is a topic today is sorta lame. In any case, the question here is whether it’s important or not. Yes. […]
VC Spotlight: Kevin Spain of Emergence Capital
[iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lp-Pf-gT2cs” mode=”normal”] Emergence Capital is a well known Silicon Valley venture capital firm that focuses on Cloud and Saas investments. They are well known for their investments in Salesforce.com, Box, SuccessFactors, Yammer and many others. Follow Emergence on Twitter. I first met Kevin Spain in 2011 when I was working on a b2b saas […]
Hump Day Hustle! – Hustle Music!
Socialization of the Enterprise is Here, and is Not Going Away
I first heard the term “Social Enterprise” back in 2008 from Alex Blum, who was the CEO at a NYC-based startup I was working for called KickApps. We were while-label software that allowed any website to have an online community bolted onto it. At the time the term “social media” was still young and companies […]
Patricia McLaren, Datanyze’s Rockstar SDR
Interviewee: Patricia McLaren, Sales Development Rep at Datanyze Interviewer: Jorge Soto, Blogger at SotoVentures, Partner at Sales Hacker Jorge: What’s your professional background and how did you get into sales? Patricia: I am originally from Ontario, Canada and grew up in Milwaukee, WI. I was craving some excitement and opportunity, so I packed up my bags and […]