Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise.

Technical Review 301

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Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I wrote a post about it back in 2006 on the topic that I could point people to, but it looks a little light, so I thought I’d post an update. Product, Marketing, Sales. 3) Work in the industry - Accelerators, PR, HR, Design, IP – whatever. I get asked this question a *lot*. 6) Be lucky. This applied to me.

Venture Capital 59

Venture Capital IP Portfolio PR 59

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

It took hundreds of years for newspapers to learn to behave as worthy holders of this public trust and cover the news without fear or favour, and create a firewall between news and views and the ad-sales side of the operation. Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? Desperately.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107