Sun.Apr 12, 2020

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10 Things New Sales Reps Are Taught. That They Shouldn’t Be.

SaaStr

Q: What sales tactics that are taught to new salespeople bother you enough that you refuse to use them? A few that I think really do you a disservice in SaaS, especially before you have a huge brand: “Be careful of prospects that waste your time.” Yes, your time is precious in sales. But this is backwards. Almost no one wants to waste a salesperson’s time.

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16 Minutes on the News #29: The Case of Zoom and Scaling Cloud Security

Andreessen Horowitz

Zoom has not only experienced unprecedented, rapid growth (from 10M to 200M daily active users) due to the coronavirus pandemic and shelter-in-place — but is also seeing a shift in use cases from primarily enterprise to more consumer as well. … The post 16 Minutes on the News #29: The Case of Zoom and Scaling Cloud Security appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

The Basecamp guys have been busy lately. I follow DHH and Jason Fried on Twitter and generally find myself agreeing with their often-contrarian points of view. I love their Guide to Internal Communication , their pushback against insane 80-hour workweeks in It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work … REWORK … REMOTE … Getting Real.