article thumbnail

Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

YoungUpstarts

Just one floor below him, one of Mike’s managers, Rambling Roger, started running a different racket. This manager wasn’t one of Mike’s political buddies. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Mike’s employer took it on the chin.

article thumbnail

How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. At Packeteer, they built a hardware-based appliance that was expensive and complex to manage.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How One Woman’s Flat Tire Inspired A Global Trucking Movement

YoungUpstarts

But she has persevered while pursuing experience in steel fabrication, traffic management, and transportation regulatory consulting. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. She’s encountered her own array of potholes along the way.

Global 104
article thumbnail

30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

My wife and I both worked as mechanical engineers, so we wanted a name that paid tribute to our profession. Momentum is a term that is highly related to engineering, as it relates to motion and dynamics. The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. Photo Credit: Terry Kasdan.

Naming 146
article thumbnail

5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. But they went one step further.

Customer 280
article thumbnail

Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. Data Management Platform ∩ Marketing automation capabilities.

article thumbnail

Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. One (thing) we have talked about in the past is a lack of Product Managers, experienced technology Product Managers. (in