Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

While you may be able to offer a price & terms for your service and not ever negotiate (especially if you’re an Internet company that sells cheaply to small businesses over the web and without onsite support & service) – you’ll still likely have to negotiate on business development deals.

Development Team Review 293

Development Team Review Software Review Demand Software 293

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Always developing. I think the overwhelming majority of people would not be good at running their own small businesses (but that doesn’t mean they need to work in mindless jobs or be on the Deferred Life plan). And while I bounced back very easily, many of the bank elders did not. I swore never to let that happen to me.

France 295

France Spain Technical Review Hungary 295

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. note: my internal friends at Salesforce tell me that they’ve really fixed this now and internal dev teams are much more focused on bigger, more strategic development). We had to do intense training sessions.

Startup 389

Startup Early Stage Demand Channel 389

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AUGUST 2, 2009

But we need to wait for the equivalent of “opt-in” to develop on Twitter because without this brands need to be careful about not coming across as Spammy. If you’re a smaller company you can obviously do this manually but at a minimum you need to know whether people are positive or negative.

Conversion 235

Conversion Management Social Network Philadelphia 235

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JULY 13, 2013

” And just – you develop a pattern over time that no matter how many times I try to say no to you, I can’t. We’d just had the savings and loan crisis and people couldn’t get jobs. In a way, I think I was unfortunate to get a job because I really did have these entrepreneurial skills. I kind of like that guy.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup San Diego 337

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JUNE 29, 2011

It is not uncommon to see a team out of Utah, Texas or for that matter Finland with 8-10 developers build iPhone apps that get 10′s of millions of downloads and doing hundreds of millions of monthly page views. You can’t scale a large business quickly on your $500,000 alone. Not to mention providing the capital for growth.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296