Startup Strategy
Sales Advice: Tips for Getting a Call-back from Your Voicemail
In a sales position, particularly a Lead Qualification role at an expansion stage business, voicemails are one of the key...
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Startup Strategy
Best Practice Process: Managing (and Investing) on Global Scale
OpenView Venture Partners, one of the top venture capital firms based in Boston, invests in companies globally -- not just on...
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Startup Strategy
Putting your Foot Down with Contractors Part II
Are you an expansion stage business that is potentially looking to use contractors? If so, as I mentioned in a...
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Startup Strategy
Picture this... Training and Selling with Metaphors
Last week I was in Pasadena, California with Central Desktop, one of our portfolio companies that offers online collaboration software.As...
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Startup Strategy
Putting Your Foot Down with Contractors
Part of my role in recent months has been to manage independent contractors for internal marketing initiatives. Some of my experiences...
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Portfolio
Spending time with Central Desktop in Pasadena
Greetings from sunny California! This week I am spending time with Central Desktop's sales team at their headquarters in Pasadena,...
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Startup Strategy
Have your customers do the work for you...
Two Sundays ago, I got engaged. For the last couple of weeks I've been on cloud nine, and I cant...
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Startup Strategy
The Blame Game: Sales and Marketing Support
How many times have you heard your sales team complain about your marketing team and vice versa? In a recent...
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Startup Strategy
Poaching from Competitors' Sales Teams: A Best Practice Process?
Tricky topic, and there are clearly pros and cons to this hiring practice. We have seen some of our expansion...
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