Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Study the Sales Learning Curve and Only Invest behind Success (more.) The internet is your new channel and Technology Enabled Service providers are among the few partners that actually care if you succeed (more.) Your caution in Law 6 about over-estimating the impact of SEM and other lead-generation activity is particularly astute.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 14, 2010

There are still conflicting reports on the growth of the economy and it is unclear whether Q4 was the release of some pent-up demand of if it will be more indicative of sustainable new spending on technology. Do we have a continually growing sales pipeline or did we run it dry for a big Q4?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

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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