Blogging Development Team Review Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. He didn’t feel my pressures on sales, marketing and ops.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 14, 2010
Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.
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TechEmpower
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development? Avoid them.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2011
Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to establish sales targets and how to manage a sales pipeline. Finally, I made clear that there are ALWAYS exceptions to the rule.
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?
InfoChachkie
MARCH 16, 2016
I learned the hard way that during a startup’s early days, entrepreneurs should give slightly greater emphasis on developing buyer features, in order to reduce the friction of the sales cycle. I implored my development team to imitate WebEx’s strategy, but I could not convince my engineers to build a similar on/off box.
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