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 […]
Tag: Startups
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 […]
We ARE Just HUMAN
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 […]
Bigger Than Business
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 […]