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Charles Edge
9 min read
Customer Advocacy Programs For Startups
Customer advocacy often starts in the most authentic of ways. A customer tweets something nice about us and we retweet it. It feels...


Charles Edge
4 min read
Political Capital
Political capital is often thought of as a currency of influence and trust that can be deployed or lost in order to achieve a given goal....


Charles Edge
3 min read
Sometimes It's About Evolution, Not Revolution
For those in newer fields, the scale of growth in a given profession can feel like a revolution. We’ve gone from a world where...


Charles Edge
8 min read
New Vendor Checklists
As our companies grow, we can't do everything any more. As our needs become more complex, we end up with data sprawled across a lot of...


Greg Gentle
6 min read
Learning in the Age of COVID: Orca Project Part 3
Learning in the Age of COVID: Orca Project is a three-part series featuring one organization’s innovative approach to address the...


Charles Edge
5 min read
Teaching Customers To Promote Us In Their Organizations
Successful customers often lead to much larger footprints (or deal sizes) in year two of the life a customer. One of the best ways to...


Charles Edge
3 min read
Source Code Escrow
Source code is a collection of computer commands and comments written in a programming language, like Java, C or Swift. When compiled,...


Greg Gentle
4 min read
Learning in the Age of COVID: Orca Project Part 2
Learning in the Age of COVID: Orca Project is a three-part series featuring one organization’s innovative approach to address the...


Charles Edge
11 min read
The Immutable Laws of Game Mechanics In A Microtransaction-Based Economy
I originally posted this article in 2016 on Huffington Post. Over the past 4 years, some things have changed and others have not, which...


Charles Edge
13 min read
Adding YouTube To A Content Marketing Strategy
I see a number of digital marketing plans that identify YouTube as part of the plan. But when we start discussing how YouTube fits into...


Charles Edge
4 min read
Continuous Discovery for Startups
Once upon a time, we tried to figure out what products and features we should develop on an annual basis. We set a strategy and went...


Greg Gentle
3 min read
Learning in the Age of COVID: Orca Project Part 1
Learning in the Age of COVID: Orca Project is a three-part series featuring one organization’s innovative approach to address the challenges


Charles Edge
10 min read
Starting A Company Podcast
The first time we do most things is usually the hardest. Once we get through one or two repetitions, most tasks get easier. About 400...


Amy Larson Pearson
3 min read
Why We Invested in SiteKick
We hear a lot of pitches from entrepreneurs seeking funding. Some are pretty good, but every now and then we hear a truly great one....


Charles Edge
7 min read
Get Started With Webinars
Web + seminar = webinar. A webinar is just a presentation streamed over the internet. Webinars are usually hosted by an organization...


Charles Edge
4 min read
100 Podcast Episodes On The History Of Computing
The digitization of the world is an amazing, crazy, sometimes boring, and often surprising process of often seemingly disconnected...


Matt Raskin
4 min read
Decoding & Defining "Culture"
Mock Culture Think about how many times we've heard or said these statements: "Our culture makes us special." "They are a great culture...


Charles Edge
6 min read
What’s Your Currency?
I have a lot of conversations about how to price products in startups. It took a long time to realize that before any meaningful...


Charles Edge
2 min read
Charles' Reading List
Chip posted his reading list awhile back. Mine is more a compilation of works I've used in researching my next book. But if there are any...


Charles Edge
4 min read
Whales Can Kill Startups
We often to refer to huge new customers as whales. In sales this usually means a customer that is 10 times the average sale. Working with...
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