10-mistakes 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
So he would allocate say – 20% to sales, 15% to marketing, 20% to eng priorities, 10% to customer support, 10% to ops, 20% to ‘platinum customers’ and maybe 5% directly to me as the CEO. We CEOs like to be heroes and with the power to push through pricing or product we have unfair advantages over the normal process.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 27, 2012
This caused us to make the same thirty mistakes in thirty countries, when we really should have learned from those mistakes one at a time, before repeating them globally.” They learned from their mistakes in smaller, lower profile markets and thus did not replicate them when the stakes were higher.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2018
In terms of stack ranking I recommend you force yourself to have no more than 8–10 “A’s,” 8–10 “B’s” and the balance 20–24 should be “C’s.” Then begin your process in earnest with up to 8–10 firms. Why 8–10 and not just 3–4? Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC).
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 12, 2010
Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. One of the biggest mistakes I see early-stage startups making is hiring “seasoned&# sales professionals or hiring people too senior, too early.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition.
InfoChachkie
AUGUST 8, 2016
After Pacific Sunwear, my career covered two new ends of the retail spectrum; off price at Ross and women’s luxury at St. Greathouse: It was smart to begin the process with one of your brands and learn from your mistakes, rather than rushing all of your designs online and making the same mistakes over and over. John Knits.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 19, 2011
Don’t and you might make one catastrophic mistake that leaves you in the annals of Effed Companies. o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. People want to invest in people they trust – once you’ve made money for someone you can always go back, and even get better pricing.
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