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How to Manage a Sales Pipeline\ title=72

How to Manage a Sales Pipeline

A classic start-up conundrum is how to forecast revenue for this quarter. Sales forecasting is a notoriously difficult problem and start-ups generally learn the hard way that sales meetings, prospect...

0 comments    business sales management
How to Interview People\ title=71

How to Interview People

Interviewing candidates is an art and a challenging one. Hiring the best and brightest, establishing competency, qualifying cultural fit, and making interviewing productive are critical to the success of early stage companies. In order to avoid...

2 comments    careers interviews best practice
Start-up Strategy\ title=58

Start-up Strategy

Today, I attended Software 2006, an enterprise software conference organized by the Sand Hill Group. The conference highlighted several important strategy concepts related to how to architect a next-generation...

1 comment    technology strategy start-ups
How to Interview\ title=56

How to Interview

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on applied interviewing. Mark Tsimelzon, founder and President of Coral8, replied that Coral8 is a strong advocate of structured interviewing and has had tremendous success...

1 comment    careers interviewing best practices
Milton Friedman\ title=66

Milton Friedman

Over Thanksgiving, I reread Free to Choose in honor of Milton Friedman. The book, first published in 1980, is a classic that lays out a systematic argument for free markets, the tyranny of controls, and the...

0 comments    business government economics
Innovation Summit\ title=58

Innovation Summit

Yesterday, I had the good fortune of attending TechNet's Innovation Summit at Stanford University. TechNet is a bi-partisan advocacy group that lobbies Federal and State governments on behalf of the...

0 comments    business internet technology
Finding a Job\ title=58

Finding a Job

As a VC, I am frequently asked to meet with people looking for a job. The broad perspective enjoyed by many VC firms provides a birds-eye view into emerging markets, new companies, and areas of opportunity. It...

0 comments    careers jobs job search
The Cost of Optimism\ title=64

The Cost of Optimism

The Economist recently ran a wonderful piece on the sorry state of project management. The Standish Group, which analyzes IT projects, reported that in 2004 only 29% of IT projects succeeded, down from...

0 comments    business decision making
How to Sell and Raise Money at the Same Time\ title=48

How to Sell and Raise Money at the Same Time

Young start-ups need two things to survive: customer orders and funding. The challenge, however, is that customers and venture investors often decide to "buy" based on very different messages. To succeed...

0 comments    business venture capital
What to do After Your Raise Money\ title=67

What to do After Your Raise Money

Start-ups are by definition young, in constant motion, and experiencing massive change. The start-up environment and pressure to attract capital, talent, customers, and partners makes it challenging to take...

0 comments    business strategy start-up
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