There is nothing harder for a non-salesperson than building a sales pipeline. In Bagging the Elephant I highlight a post about a recent event in NYC, in which entrepreneurs discussed how to build strong enough relationships with larger businesses in order to be taken seriously enough to close deals with them. This is part of [ Read More ]
Tis the Season to be Independent
Posted on Dec - 01 - 2009In Deck the Halls with Pink Slips I discuss the November round of layoffs at several big companies. Of course, part of what brought these to my attention is that a dear friend of mine got caught in the pre-holidays cut-backs at Adobe. Even worse, however, was the fact that my friend loved working at [ Read More ]
TechRanch Employee to Entrepreneur
Posted on Jul - 19 - 2009Like Luke Skywalker, apparently I can no longer escape my destiny. After years of avoiding self-employment, I’m now in the thick of it. And because one of the most important things to being successful in this space is connecting with others, Charles and I are starting TechRanch’s Employee to Entrepreneur program this week. It’s been [ Read More ]
Keeping Your Spirits Up During a Job Hunt
Posted on Jul - 01 - 2009Job hunting is rough for oh-so-many reasons. One of the things that is hardest about it, though, is managing your own attitude and spirits. If there is one thing that is liable to get you into trouble during a job hunt, it is unmanaged anxiety. I’ve written before about some of the things that I [ Read More ]
20/20 Hindsight – Getting Your Start in a Startup
Posted on Apr - 23 - 2009People who did not meet me until at or around my 25th birthday would never believe it, but in school, I was the Queen of Slackers. Truly. School was too easy, too routine and I spent too long doing it to be able to breath new life into the experience. I could dodge classes, do [ Read More ]
20/20 Hindsight – How Early Career Choices Can Set the Stage
Posted on Apr - 22 - 2009I had a couple of discussions this week that got me thinking back to the early days of my career. Aside from leaving me feeling older than I care to think about, it did spark a pleasant memory or two that I’ve been mulling over since. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about how early career choices [ Read More ]
Enterprise 2.0 Discussion at Web 2.0 Expo
Posted on Apr - 12 - 2009At Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, we recorded a short video on the happenings in the Enterprise 2.0 space, the activity at the event, and the upcoming local event (local to me, anyway) here in Austin at the end of the month: Interactive Austin 09. The video is posted and, as always, while I [ Read More ]
My First Visit to California in Over a Year
Posted on Mar - 27 - 2009The hardest thing about leaving JetBlue last year was giving up the travel benefits that helped ease the difficulty of living 3,000 miles away from my family and so many of my friends. One of the things I’ve realized lately is that, even though I am really loving being in Austin, I have been horrendously [ Read More ]