Startup Strategy
Defining Opportunity is a Key to Success
This week’s learning from the November 4th salesforce.com visit is to have a very clear definition of a qualified opportunity....
by Ori Yankelev
HR & Leadership
User Adoption and a Metrics Driven Culture Come From the Top
Events like the visit to Salesforce.com on November 4th 2009 are just one of the ways we provide sales and marketing support...
by Ori Yankelev
Sales
Learnings from Salesforce.com
After giving it some thought and consideration I managed to narrow down all of the things I learned at the...
by Ori Yankelev
Startup Strategy
Learning from the Best
Last week I traveled to Salesforce.com head quarters in San Francisco with a few other members of the OpenView team...
by Ori Yankelev
Startup Strategy
Lessons Learned the Hard Way
In a project I recently completed with one of our expansion stage portfolio companies, we implemented a new way of...
by Ori Yankelev
Sales
Nice Sales Ops Rant
Today I read an amazing blog post on what has come to be one of my new favorite blogs, The...
by Ori Yankelev
Sales
A Salesforce to be Reckoned With
Last week I had my first real introduction to developing APEX code to build a custom trigger in one of...
by Ori Yankelev
Marketing
Inbound Leads?
Last week OpenView Partners hosted a forum on Content Marketing and coming from a sales background I have to admit...
by Ori Yankelev
Sales
Back to Basics: What most Salesforce.com consultants don't want you to know
A large portion of my time at OpenView Labs is spent consulting our portfolio companies in sales best practices and...
by Ori Yankelev