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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. 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. My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit. Folksonomy.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? If so, how can you develop an emotional thread that keeps people connected through each step of the buying process? It means that if emotion plays a role in sharing at the top of the funnel, it definitely plays a role at the point of sale further down the road.

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