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Demoing Product
Thursday, February 9, 2012 Christopher O'Donnell - Director of Product Management, HubSpot
Most product demos are disastrous. I’ve gone through more trainwrecks than I would care to have, and thought I’d share some of my scars and random learnings on the topic...
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Expert Advice, Lessons Learned, Voices
WANTED: Engineer to Build My Product
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Cort Johnson - Director, Terrible Labs
As many fellow non-technical folks know, it’s not easy selling an engineer on building a product that’s not their own. To remedy this situation, many people (including myself) have...
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Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Lessons Learned, Opinions, Voices
How Smarterer Grew by More Than 1250% in One Week
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Dave Balter - CEO of BzzAgent, Executive Chairman of Smarterer
We’ve been developing Smarterer for the better part of a year now, quietly building a platform that uses crowd-sourced questions to validate peoples’ social and professional skills.  Like many...
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Entrepreneurship, Expert Advice, Innovation, Lessons Learned, Success Stories, Voices
Why not kick these 7 bad sales habits in 2012!
Friday, January 6, 2012 Frank Belzer - VP of Corporate Training, Kurlan and Associates
I was really inspired to write this post by this recently published great article about 7 bad habits of executives. That got me thinking about the bad habits that sales people can sometimes...
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Expert Advice, Voices
Learn how to code
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Mike Miklavic - VP of Engineering, CampusLIVE
1.)  Start here:   http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercise/0.  It’s the basics.  See if it interests you.  It’s a process that’ll take a while, so it’s key to see if it interests you right...
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Five reasons why you should find what you love and double-down on it
Thursday, December 8, 2011 Joshua Porter - Director of UX, HubSpot
You know when you meet someone and at first you don’t really hit it off so well…you don’t seem to have much in common? And then, all of a sudden, you hit on a topic...
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Loch Ness, Unicorns & The First-Mover Advantage
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Christopher Mirabile - Managing Director, Launchpad Venture Group
When they are asked about the defensibility of their businesses, I regularly hear entrepreneurs cite “first-mover advantage” as the basis on which they will compete and defend their margins. It has come...
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CXO Guide to Moneyball
Thursday, November 17, 2011 Joe Kinsella - VP of Engineering, Sonian
As the CXO, you have watched the monthly cloud bills steadily rise. You’ve tried everything to drive them down, but nothing seems to make a difference. You have lingering doubts...
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Harvard Tech Meetup: MBAs Care About Startups Too
Friday, November 11, 2011 Adam Besvinick - Harvard Business School
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg came back to Harvard for the first time since 2005. And by Harvard, I mean the undergrad campus - not the business school. The event was framed...
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Voices
If You Sell Technology - Learn from Steve Jobs
Thursday, October 27, 2011 Frank Belzer - VP of Corporate Training, Kurlan and Associates
With the recent passing of Steve Jobs the worlds of business and technology have certainly lost a real visionary and leader. Furthermore Steve represents someone that was...
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