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

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The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p.

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

Feld Thoughts

The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p.

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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. I’ve watched as many of the companies we’ve invested in use email and CRM systems (such as Salesforce) as though they existed in separate parallel universes.

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

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But it occurred to me today – after getting another email asking me how I’d become a VC, that I wasn’t really answering the question. Over the next two years, I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of the company. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993.

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Book: The More You Hustle, The Luckier You Get

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I’ve had an email correspondence with James going back to 2015. In November, I got an email from him that, among other things, said: “Brad, I think I mentioned I’m raising money for a WeMontage relaunch, which is taking a while-as expected. In the meantime, the way I’m taking care of my kids is mostly via book sales.

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Monsters

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The thing is, the categories were things like “Existentialism” and “Philosophy Reference” where overall sales are lower – they are applicable to the book as categories, but not really our target market (for the record, the book is selling nicely in “Entrepreneurial Management”, where it was briefly #2.).

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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

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I believe that without clear priorities on what will achieve the most, most of us will fritter away the day on email and menial tasks. I‘d do the first before I’d check email for the day. Here’s how to calculate break-even point in sales.”. All that busy work is procrastination that avoids the most important tasks. Telecommute.