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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
9 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
4 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
3 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...

Charles Edge
8 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...

Greg Gentle
6 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
5 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,...

Charles Edge
3 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...

Greg Gentle
4 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
11 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
13 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...

Charles Edge
4 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

Greg Gentle
3 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...

Charles Edge
10 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....

Amy Larson Pearson
3 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
7 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...

Charles Edge
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...
Matt Raskin
4 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
6 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
2 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...

Charles Edge
4 min read
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