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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. In Adam’s world, I’m rude. Twitter messages?

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MARCH 30, 2011

Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. He didn’t feel my pressures on sales, marketing and ops. Twitter took a few years until people (or the company) really understood how to use it effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2013

Yet the use of SMS text messaging for all purposes, including business, has grown consistently worldwide since it was introduced 20 years ago, to an estimated 7 trillion/year, according to the Quora statistics website. Amazingly, it leveled off in 2012, only due to Twitter, which has already superseded SMS texting in volume of messages.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Founders will continue to take the “growth at all options” path that leads to privacy & trust creep at places like Quora. In revenue terms our first two years of sales were $2.1 And it launched this author’s career and taught me everything I know about sales, marketing, hiring, firing, fund raising and so on.

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JUNE 30, 2016

That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. We founded the company, on the notion of creating something for the enterprise, which was more Quora-esque, rather than like Facebook and Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2012

This total rate for 2011 has been estimated at 7 trillion, or nearly 225,000 text messages sent every second, according to the Quora statistics website. But most business processes, like negotiating a contract, closing a sale, customer support, or managing employees, are much more complicated than just words.

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MAY 25, 2013

Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! I’ve heard directly from top executives that Jeff Bezos (in my opinion the most talented person in the tech industry) has received his fair share of VC coaching in the early years. I create videos. I use analytics.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

I was asked by somebody recently in a private message on Quora about whether the individual should leave his comfortable job to become an entrepreneur. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. On Being an Entrepreneur. And that’s what it’s like – all superlatives.

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JANUARY 22, 2011

I was asked by somebody recently in a private message on Quora about whether the individual should leave his comfortable job to become an entrepreneur. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. On Being an Entrepreneur. And that’s what it’s like – all superlatives.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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JUNE 6, 2012

A bit easier of a leap for bloggers, Tweeters, Quora contributors. With Google building global sales forces that will over the next few years be capable of selling brand advertising in many countries around the world it will become economically viable for content producers to dub their shows from day 1. That was impressive.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We shared information about building sales teams. Hiring inside reps, how to comp field sales reps and how to balance leads across both. I was an early fan and heavy user of Quora back in the day and used to get huge benefit out of the conversations I had there. But Jason took Quora usage to 11. I was Johnny NoMates.

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