A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 4, 2011

This guest-post is from Joannes Vermorel, founder of Lokad which produces sales forecasts for off-line companies. As a result, the pitch was less than useful, and the sales team appeared clueless. The details of many commercial proposals were lost, and the leaving cofounder wasn’t much inclined in giving support.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. This is a significantly increase from even last year when sales also ranked number one.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Our categorization is not a technical one. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. As a result, gross margins are very high at 98% (not a typo!) Think about that.

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