Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 10, 2010
In early 1999 I made the decision to fulfill my lifelong dream to live and work in Japan. I will also cover how I accomplished this in a separate post but in early 1999 I arrived in Tokyo for the first time. Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Though paper flyers are an option for today’s marketer, technology has also made it possible for you to avail yourself of digital distribution options and opened the door for platforms like evite , where anyone with a computer can quickly draw up an event or occasion announcement and distribute it to thousands of email and social media contacts.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. It was December 1999. Any deal.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. 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. .
Agile VC
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Many of the sensors and systems for vehicle perception are made by large Tier 1 suppliers like Bosch and Delphi, but new players like Mobileye (founded in 1999 and now a $10 billion market cap public company) have also emerged. Sales of new cars and light trucks in the US were approximately $576 billion in 2015.
Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
Subscribe by email. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. You can’t have a $20 million sales estimate with 10 employees in the company and a few hundred thousand dollars of marketing expense. Get Gust by Email.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to establish sales targets and how to manage a sales pipeline. I never built Google.
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