I always joke around about how I have been torturing myself for nearly 10 years by being in the startup game as an entrepreneur. When I first started my career, I guess thats what you call it — “a career”, I swore I’d be rich and famous by 22, then it was 23, then it was; well, […]
Author: jorge
Sales4StartUps – Teaching B2B Startups all about Sales
In late 2011, we decided to host our first Sales4StartUps event at Crittercism’s office in SOMA, SF. To our surprise we had 80 + attendees and people seemed to really love what we were doing. As a result, we decided to formally launch Sales4StartUps as a way to help teach B2B tech startups how to sell. […]
Angelpad’s Thomas Korte is a Great Guy to Have in Your Corner
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that most incubator programs fund and work with way more companies than they can possibly develop meaningful relationships with. In fact, you hear it all the time — founders complaining about the fact that they didnt get the personalized attention that they expected. And in the defense […]
The Non-Technical Founder Part 1
I have spent alot of time this year thinking about entrepreneurship, particularly as it relates to the start up technology world from a non-technical founder’s perspective, and I have come to a few conclusions: 1) If you are a non-technical CEO/founder your life will suck for a long time. The tech world is ruled by, […]
Long Live the Cold Call!
Listen Up people: cold calling is NOT dead nor is it going anywhere. I’m so sick of these wanna-be sales people writing all this garbage about how cold calling is dead. Frankly its because they have no idea what sales is all about. Yes, I’m going to say it: especially in silicon valley. You have […]
Sales for Start Up Events
So I just did a sales for start ups event with a few Angelpad companies including: Pipedrive, which is a simple way for a company to manage its sales pipeline. Wishery, wants to improve customer service, sales and marketing with its Gmail add-on. And also our 500 Start Ups friends at LaunchRock, who allows you […]
RIP Steve Jobs
Wow. It’s about 4:56pm on this San Francisco day…at some point over the last hour I heard folks in my SOMA office mentioning that Steve Jobs just passed away…so I did what we do now days and checked my Twitter..and well, sure enough it was true. I then saw a tweet from someone referring to […]
Day 219 – Resilience
So today marks the 212th day since I moved to San Francisco to build Feedgen. Its definitely been a long financial and emotional rollercoaster. Its been a crazy few days. Aslam and I are both having issues with our apartments and Cass is sick with a fever yet still writing code somehow. Its funny how […]
The Feedgen “Why”
I was listening to one of these motivation speaker guys the other day and the thesis behind his talk was trying to figure out the “Why” in what you do as a business person. And well, it led me to take a step back and analyze why the hell I was doing what I am […]
My Angelpad Experience
I was a participant in the Spring 2011 Angelpad class, which happened to be the 2nd class conducted since the program was founded summer of 2010. My view on the program was perhaps a tad different from some of the other founders. I was about to be 30 years old and had spent my entire […]