OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Taking the exact opposite tack, in a recent CNBC interview, Alan Patricof , founder of Greycroft Partners, an elite venture capital firm, said: “academic studies show that the success rate of entrepreneurs who start at the age of 60 are twice as successful as those that started in their thirties.”

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital Leadership Construction Development 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

I think one thing about RJ Metrics that maybe goes on that list of mistakes is that even though we founded the company in 2008, the next thing that happened the day after we founded the company was the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the venture capital market was non-existent. The business ran for four years completely bootstrapped.

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It’s a constructive exercise in building something that many folks have built before — so it’s about content structuring, best practice sharing, and the like. Obviously, when you step back and think about it, the success of any onboarding program is going to be a function of both the program and people you feed into it.

Sales Hiring 45

Sales Hiring Onboarding Sales Recruiting Scale 45

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It would be hard to construct this tool, I would imagine if you didn’t have a point of view on how enterprise sales should be run in the first place. While I was there we grew from a hundred and change employees to 450, we raised another $150 million in venture capital. Sam Jacobs : That’s really interesting.

VP of Engineering 63

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 63

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2019

244: Ryan Petersen will share what he has learned about scaling culture, expanding globally, raising venture capital (or not), and using technology to improve legacy industries. Is there commonalities in where you see some people go wrong in their presentation construction and really displaying of customer stories?

Scale 137

Scale Sales Hiring SMB Interviewing 137

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I started my career actually in venture capital, specifically in SAS venture capital. Sam Jacobs: But I’ve gotten the same set of constructive criticism/weaknesses/things that I’m not good at for 20 years. So I ended up doing my MBA and not going to medical school. It’s just impossible.

Scale 69

Scale Sales Hiring Technical Review Investment 69

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

And while every company is different, I do firmly believe that the ideas and constructs that I’m about to present might be applicable to some, if not all of you, trying to build a SaaS companies. They are like Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures. One of my favorite stories is that of a construction company called Balfour Beatty.

Sales Recruiting 166

Sales Recruiting Construction Scale SaaS 166

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. You’re in the valley, you raise venture capital. We knew we wanted to build software for the field workers in construction. It helps that something like 25 percent of PlanGrid comes from an architectural engineer or a construction background.

VP of Engineering 252

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 252

ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2020

Without digital, unwanted distance can be created between company and customer, but many organizations fail to deploy because the construction takes time, focus, and expertise…a combo that can be hard to come by,” says Megan Macaluso, VP of Strategic Development at ESG. “By ChurnZero is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Consulting 98

Consulting Customer Success Strategy Venture Capital 98

Neil Patel

MARCH 21, 2023

Take care of your mind and body in constructive, healing ways. Entrepreneurs raise money from venture capitalists: Venture capital money is on the list, but personal loans, credit, and family and friends are often the main funders. Instead of watching TV and movies, read case studies and meditate.

Entrepreneurship 92

Entrepreneurship Underperforming Technical Team Entertainment Company Culture 92

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2021

Constructive Feedback. Upward Mobility Action. Financial Security Initiatives. Willingness to Learn. Accountability Partners. Peer Support & Engagement Groups. Mentorship. Assertive Action. Heart’s Intention. Extending Grace. Openness to Allyship. Abundance of Resources. Zanade: I was going to say my favorite.

Outsourcing Services 151

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Business Scale 151

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Additionally, Intercom solves one of the biggest headaches when it comes to constructing your tech stack – integrations. Alternatives: Salespanel, Infer. This year, marketers will spend $4.6 billion to attract businesses to their websites.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Kellblog

JUNE 29, 2021

So, in that light, here is my quick critique of Clubhouse intended as both critical and constructive. I love to get involved with new social media early both because I’m interested in new forms of media in general (and the often subtle differences they bring), I love watching early evolution of the products and the usage (e.g.,

Social Media 97

Social Media Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Startup 97

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

VCs are constructed of people of different levels, but we all work as a team and every single person is important and every opinion is valued. Your deck is your business card, frankly, and so unless you’ve spent time on it and shared it with people, it just doesn’t work. Don’t be that person.

New CTO 146

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 146

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Carbon Black, DocuSign, SurveyMonkey, Tenable, Smartsheet, Dropbox; fantastic names that in aggregate, when you put together the three ways to buy stocks, public, IPOs, private venture capital dollars and then outright acquisitions. Last year was a record in terms of total combined capital by a large multiple.

Cloud 166

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 166