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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

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Obviously to understand a “class” of people you have to make broad generalizations. there is a nascent industry to try and help you with this, too. Don’t get my wrong – a great looking product can really help support a sale. ” They want technical sales to help with customer objections.

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Everything about Java 8

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The Java 8 javadocs are hosted locally for the time being because I don't know of an official, Oracle-hosted location for them. When Oracle eventually hosts them, I'll change the links to point to the official home for the javadocs. An interface cannot provide a default implementation for any of the methods of the Object class.

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Who Should you Hire at a Startup?

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Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. I’m not one of those. Your solution?

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

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Obviously they wish they would have figured this out a bit more quickly, but as a young team I personally cut them a little bit more slack than I would if it were Oracle, for example. It doesn’t help you. Startups often have advisors that help on recruiting, fund raising, biz dev, sales, etc. Help them with other stories.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School. billion in recurring run-rate revenue and growing while Siebel is sold to Oracle for a mere $5.8 Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors.

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Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

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But assuming that you do have a good starting point for sales, you’ll need to hire somebody to expand your pipeline of leads, help build customer relations and to allow you also to have some time for the hundred other things you’re responsible for like fund raising, recruiting, products, customer support, etc.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 There has already been at least one high profile funding from this class, which is Thread – a product that raised $1.2 million even before the demo day to help you integrate your social network with dating ambitions.