Below is a question from an entrepreneur, edited to protect the innocent (if you are a member of TheFunded.com, you can read the complete thread):
Q: An investor has been pressing me to invest and needs A DECISION IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO, plus he is reminding me to stop publicizing my site and keep [...]
Oct
8
2009
8
2009
Shark Eats Entrepreneur Alive
Jul
9
2009
9
2009
Good Programmers Don’t Need No Marketing
Good programmers don’t need marketing. Great applications sell themselves.
I used to think that way too.
When I was an R&D engineer, I wrote the code. I made the product. I thought that sales and marketing were basically overhead.
Then I switched sides, worked with sales people for a while, and witnessed how hard it is to sell [...]
Mar
27
2009
27
2009
I’m a Geek, How Do I Pick a Business Partner I can Trust?
When I co-founded my previous company, I had the hardest time interviewing candidates for sales positions. We went through four different VP of Sales in the first two years. One of them had no qualms about putting complete fabrications on his resume.
If you are like many software geeks, you find the company of business people [...]
