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The Holy Grail of the Repeatable Sales Process:  Is Repeatability Enough?

The Holy Grail of the Repeatable Sales Process: Is Repeatability Enough?

By Dave Kellogg on January 12, 2021

Most of us are familiar with Mark Leslie’s classic Sales Learning Curve and its implications for building the early salesforce at an enterprise startup.  In short, it argues that too many startups put “the pedal to the metal” on sales hiring too early – before they have enough knowledge, process, and infrastructure in place – […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Culture, Enterprise Sales, process, repeatable sales process, revenue ops, sales, Sales process, salesops, Silicon Valley, startups

Some High-Tech Career Counseling Tips

Some High-Tech Career Counseling Tips

By Dave Kellogg on December 19, 2014

I get a fair number of emails and calls from former colleagues and friends asking for career advice.  I’m always happy to provide it and the process of doing so is both thought-provoking and fun.  I have a learned a lot from having these conversations and have noticed a few patterns and principles in that […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud Computing, Complex sales, economics, Management, Silicon Valley, startups

U.S. federal CIO? "Someone from Google or Facebook will be eaten alive"

U.S. federal CIO? “Someone from Google or Facebook will be eaten alive”

By Michael Krigsman on October 14, 2014

The selection of US Chief Information Officer must be an innovative Washington IT insider. Anyone else is doomed to fail.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CIO, Federal CIO, government, Silicon Valley, Steven VanRoekel, Vivek Kundra

Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Disruptive Innovation Initiatives

Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Disruptive Innovation Initiatives

By Evangelos Simoudis on October 13, 2014

A large corporation recently requested my advice on how to set up and structure their venture fund, which they wanted to base in Silicon Valley. This corporation had initially set up a venture fund in the late ‘90s to invest in Internet startups. By 2002 they closed down the fund after determining that its portfolio […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged corporate innovation, corporate VC, Corporate Venture Capital, CVCinnov, disruptive innovation, Dot-com bubble, Entrepreneurship, innovation, Silicon Valley, Venture Capital

Tech Bubble? Full Stack Goes Beyond $3.7 Trillion IT Budget

Tech Bubble? Full Stack Goes Beyond $3.7 Trillion IT Budget

By Anshu Sharma on May 5, 2014

I want to convince you that this time it really is different. Its fundamentally different because the silicon valley is bursting out of tech. In the earlier generational shifts of computing paradigms from mainframes to client server and then from client server to internet, we were primarily still constrained by the IT budget.Gartner predicts IT […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Full Stack, gartner, SaaS, Silicon Valley, startups

Measuring the Performance of Corporate Innovation Initiatives

Measuring the Performance of Corporate Innovation Initiatives

By Evangelos Simoudis on April 30, 2014

The business models of large corporations are being disrupted faster than ever before, e.g., Netflix is disrupting the video distribution industry, while new lucrative markets being created by innovative startups, e.g., Uber, Nest, and SpaceX. As a result of these developments, corporations are starting to realize they will need to re-invent their disruptive innovation model.  […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged corporate innovation, disruptive innovation, Entrepreneurship, innovation, intrapreneurship, KPI, Silicon Valley, vc | 1 Response

Silicon Valley’s Role in the Re-Invention of the Disruptive Corporate Innovation Model

Silicon Valley’s Role in the Re-Invention of the Disruptive Corporate Innovation Model

By Evangelos Simoudis on April 14, 2014

Corporations from industries as diverse as agriculture, manufacturing, logistics retail and financial services are being disrupted at an unprecedented rate by a variety of innovations: technological, e.g., cloud computing and big data analytics, startup creation, e.g., lean startup, investment model, e.g., crowd-funding, business model, e.g., offering software as a service, marketing, e.g., social engagement, product […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged corporate innovation, corporate VC, disruptive innovation, Entrepreneurship, innovation, intrapreneurship, Silicon Valley, startup formation, vc | 2 Responses

Silicon Valley Heyday is Far from Over, Mr HootSuite

Silicon Valley Heyday is Far from Over, Mr HootSuite

By Anshu Sharma on May 22, 2013

Silicon valley heydays are over according to Ryan Holmes CEO of HootSuite. I think he is generating good buzz for his company (did you hear how well HootSuite is doing?), his stakeholders and his country but he is plain wrong. Rise of the maple syrup mafia is sweet words but not really true. Not even […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged linkedin, PeopleSoft, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley, startups, YouTube

How to write great/awful tech press releases: Satire

How to write great/awful tech press releases: Satire

By Brian Sommer on April 19, 2013

If you’re running a startup and wondering how those PR people do their magic, read on. (If you work for these firms, click away now.) I checked in with my colleagues over at Blithering Media (my sub rosa PR firm). They shared their best/worst practices with me. Here goes: So, suppose you’ve got a new […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Humor, Press Release, Public relations, Silicon Valley

The Case for Collaboration

The Case for Collaboration

By Denis Pombriant on February 27, 2013

There is an interesting article in the  New York Times this morning that I hope lots of people read — that means you Mr. Benioff.  It’s a tale of a shoemaker’s kids going barefoot. It seems that Yahoo, trying to breathe life back into a sclerotic organization, has cancelled its work from home policy and […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Marissa Mayer, Middle Ages, Silicon Valley, Telecommuting, Yahoo | 1 Response

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