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1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner

Posted on Thursday, Jan 27th

In this post, I want to discuss today’s news: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With Persistent; CrowdEngineering First Beneficiary, and explain the thought process behind it. It is a creative sales channel strategy that acts as alternative financing to mitigate some of the severe limitations of early stage startups. In my experience, building a marketing channel/sales channel

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Pioneering Video Conferencing: Polycom CEO Bob Hagerty (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Nov 25th

SM: You do serve the mid market, extensively. BH: We do. Below the strategic’s we have global accounts. Our solution is better than being somewhere in person, and that is a nice mantra. You want people to be productive when they are not in the same place. That is fundamentally our market. You have to

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 8)

Posted on Monday, Aug 27th

SM: In general, was the workforce at 3Com more aligned with your vision than to Krause’s? EB: It was a split workforce. We had some computer experts, and we had some networking experts. What I ended up doing was to choose one – we could not do both. We built upon our roots at Bridge,

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Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 11)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 16th

Steve says he does not segment his customer base by size. I push, because I think he should. SM: You do not have any bias one way or the other? SS: Not at all. Our distribution strategy is to reach customers of any size. We have no concentration of revenue, by customer or by market

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