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This post is in acknowledgement of my very dear friend Aslam Najeebdeen. Why? -- because we must acknowledge and support people in our lives -- for no reason at all. Love and help others and good things will happen. -- I met Aslam in early 2011 via a Ruby on Rails IRC chat room while […]
I arrived in Silicon Valley for the first time in 2006 when trying to raise money for a social travel startup that my partner and I bootstrapped from my graduate school apartment in Tallahassee, FL. We had decided to pack up and head to the "motherland" to try to raise money and recruit engineers. I […]
In the past I wanted to start a company just to start a company. To give myself meaning. To make myself proud of I. I didn't care if it was a great idea, really; and just rushed into it head first. I just wanted to BUILD SOMETHING. I just wanted to PROOVE SOMETHING. To Who? […]
My last blog post was all about my perspective on how life, love, and entrepreneurship mirrored each other in so many ways. Its crazy how much I believe I have grown as a human being over the past two years; a two year period of tremendous experiences across all facets of life. My awareness has […]
Food for thought: Success is in the eyes of the beholder I’m 31 years old. Since I was a kid my mother tells me that I always had a curiosity and passion to build, invent, love, make music, and make friends. She reminded me of the time I tried to build a small boat from scratch. How I […]
I am always looking for new ways of improving the way that I prospect, especially when it comes to qualifying opportunities. I came across PostWire earlier this year and have to say I really like it. The way we sell has certainly evolved and contrary to many “sales experts” cold calling is not dead, it's […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, yes […]