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Identifying Pain in the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How

Both Sides of the Table

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. Having a methodology instead of just going on random sales visits helped force a bit of rigor and honesty amongst team members about how well or not we thought we were doing. The best sales meetings are discussions.

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

Tech Zulu Event

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. This will prove your product is worth building to you and to the developer. Ask for is code samples.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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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.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

It also handles the back end as well by automating the posting, sale and shipment of unsold inventory while offering immediate payment to creditworthy sellers. Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software. Last week, Syrup Tech raised $6.3

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially I always tell people that fund raising is a sales process.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. 25 Years of Writing Code. Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!,

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How GoToMyPC Kicked pcAnywhere’s A$$

InfoChachkie

I hesitate to write about design, as I have never considered myself to be a "color or font" person. This dynamic duo, who now head up AppFolio , led the design and development of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting. Alwang wrote a glowing review, which confirmed that Brian had done an excellent job of properly positioning form over function.

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