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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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Relationships Do Matter in Business

Up and Running

A study by sales guru Keith Ferazzi’s Ferazzi Greenlight looked at 16 leaders of high-performing strategic account management (SAM) teams, and found that accounts with dedicated SAM teams grow an average of twice as fast as traditionally organized accounts. Some even reported growth of three and four times that of conventional sales teams.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

Xeround was founded in 2005 by Sharon Barkai – founder of Sheer networks, which was eventually sold to Cisco , and Dr. Gilad Zlotkin – founder of Class Data, also sold to Cisco. Sales cycles were long and unpredictable. What happens when you over-pivot.

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