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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p. The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p. The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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The Journey From $1m MRR to $2m MRR

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You can shift to more specific questions around a category like sales such as: Are you making progress on lowering churn? What is the composition and health of your channel? If you don’t want to read Porter’s classic book (or read it again if you read it a long time ago), try a Wikipedia shortcut on Competitive Advantage.

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Two Major Supreme Court Decisions on Patents

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Extending the patent rights beyond the first sale would clog the channels of commerce, with little benefit from the extra control that the patentees retain,” Roberts wrote. While a little more subtle, it’s equally important since this was another classic move by a certain category of company to limit downstream competition.

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Yesware – Integrating Email and CRM

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I continue to be obsessed about email – it’s by far the most significant comm channel I use. And – it’s accelerating, not decelerating, especially as it proliferates across devices as well as other comm channels.

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RIP Len Fassler

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It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. If you’ve ever worked with me in any deal capacity, I’m channeling Len. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting.

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Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado (Including Me) Because of Colorado HB 10-1193

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Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The new regulations do not require online retailers to collect sales tax.

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