It's sort of an own vs. rent question. You can get advice on demand from someone on clarity whenever you want, but it's not likely they will go to bat (or go to bat for free) in the same way someone with equity will. I viciously defended equity in my first company but my partner and I were respo...
Hi, First of all, well done for all the amazing things that you've already done. This in itself is already a great achievement. You are correct about the processes that you need to do and if I understand your question, you want to know how you can recruit the relevant professional with a limite...
Use Mattermark.com to find them. They have a 14 days free trial. The tool will let you filter by founding and type of company, so it will probably give you what you need.
Products like ZenDesk have a whole system built around help centers and tickets. Discourse and Disqus offer forum-like discussions. WordPress has several forum plugins. And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head. My assumption would be that a deeper search on Google will come ...
Because the startup costs to get a lot of their customers actually set up on their platform are too high, so free trials for say, 14 days, are out of the question. For example, take a look at http://www.curalate.com/ which uses some really amazing technology to track a customer's brand imagery ...
Yes, my agency uses 4-5 freelancers at any given time. We create marketing and social strategy plans for freelancers, consultants, and experts. I'm happy to connect, if you'd like. Best of luck, -Shaun
Here are some tips: 1) Start with a short 1 sentence intro. 2) Get right to the point quickly in a clear and easy to understand way. Eliminate all long winded and/or confusing language. 3) Most people will be very wary of clicking links in a cold-call email. Partially because it would take tim...
First off, always good to see more and more tech companies in Europe. Berlin is producing a lot of great startups. Your geo-location isn't nearly as relevant as: - Your stage (Seed round) - Age (1 year?) - Pre-revenue or post (post) - Business model (B2B SaaS) - Vertical (Hardware) While plent...
great questions - we see this situation with our clients pretty frequently at my firm. based on my own years of SaaS/tech sales, marketing and project management experience, I would say the path most likely to get adoption is actually discovered before the demo is delivered, rather than after. ...
From everything I've seen, 20-35% is definitely the sweet spot. It certainly depends on the price point and some people start lower but build in incentive criteria to bump the percentage up after a certain milestones have been met.