If you’re exploring startup sales jobs, keep in mind that to succeed in these roles you need a certain mindset and way of selling that’s fundamentally different from your peers who are working at larger companies. From my experience having worked as an investor and operator in and advisor to startups, these 5 traits can […]
Startup job hunting wisdom – Don’t be another resume in the pile!
Fraser Kelton is the COO at GetGlue, a venture-backed startup at the intersection of television and social networking. Fraser started at GetGlue in business development and shares some great insights below about how to stand out from the crowd when startup job hunting. –John You have a pretty interesting story about how you ended up […]
Startup business development jobs – One part hustle, One part networking
Mike Cardamone was my classmate Columbia Business School and has gone on to work in startup business development jobs with successful startups like Box and AcademixDirect. Below he shares his story about how he landed his first startup job in Silicon Valley and provides insight into what traits make a startup business development person effective. Tell […]
Customer Success Career Advice from VMware and Appsense alum Dmitry Shkliarevsky
My friend and former colleague Dmitry Shkliarevsky has built and scaled customer success and technical services organizations within large software companies like VMware and growth stage startups like Appsense. Below, he shares his thoughts about what sorts of people will be successful working at a startup and advice about pursuing an MBA. –John How has […]
Video product manager career tips from a YouTube alum
Josh Siegel and I worked together at VMware in the professional services division, and for the last several years he’s been working in video product management roles at great companies like Google. Below he talks about how he transitioned from a professional services career into a video product manager job and describes the traits that […]
From startup founder to world class web company
Keith Cowing sold his last company to Sailthru and now is a product manager at a social networking company. Keep reading to hear about what it was like moving to a bigger company after running his own company as well as what it takes for MBA students to position themselves to enter the startup world. […]
Big Data Marketing VP Gil Allouche discusses startup marketing careers
I came to know Gil Allouche through our work together in the Big Data ecosystem, where he worked as a technical marketer for a venture backed analytics startup. He’s started his own company, worked at larger established shops, and now leads marketing at a Big Data startup. He gives some incredibly detailed, actionable, and no-BS […]
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