Sales A Blueprint from the Woman Who Helped AdRoll Double its Sales Force and Sales Former AdRoll Director Diane Lu maps out the sales operations team that can turn your startup's sales force into a revenue-generating juggernaut.
Management The Most Dangerous Leadership Traps — and the 15-Minute Daily Practice That Will Save You Sought-after leadership coach Chris Holmberg on the mistakes he sees too many leaders make, and the best way to sidestep them.
Fundraising AppNexus' First Pitch — Before It Steered Around the Cloud to Win Big in AdTech AppNexus opens the vault and shares its very first seed funding pitch deck, created before its impressive pivot.
Management Leslie’s Law: When Small Meets Large, Small (Almost) Always Wins Longtime entrepreneur and investor Mark Leslie on the inevitable truth that when small companies meet big ones, small usually wins out. Here's why.
Engineering Your Data Is Your Lifeblood — Set up the Analytics It Deserves Looker Co-founder Ben Porterfield talks about why most startups miss the mark on their analytics and provides a formula for nailing it the first time around.
Management Here's Why You Should Care About Holacracy Yammer Co-founder Adam Pisoni is on a mission: To spread the word about responsive company models. Here's how Holacracy fits into this movement.
Fundraising What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A Josh Kopelman on why raising a Series A is harder than ever, and how startups can adapt to survive the changing investment landscape.
Fundraising You Aren't Getting the Most Out of Your Investors — This is How to Start Angel investor Paul Arnold has seen many companies fail to capitalize on the wisdom and resources of their investors. Here's how others have succeeded.
PR & Marketing Here's What I Learned from Working with 50+ PR Firms Marked Point Founder Jenn Hirsch works with a lot of PR firms. She's seen the good, the bad and the ugly. Here's how you can spot them too.
Management The Secret to Making Board Meetings Suck Less Jeff Bonforte, former CEO of Xobni (now SVP at Yahoo), provides a step-by-step guide to running a painless, productive board meeting.
Management There’s a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company: How This Man Did It David Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation, tells the story of how they built a valuable company from scratch.
Management What Everyone Should Know About How Talent is Bought and Sold Mike Brown, corporate development veteran from Facebook and Twitter, explains how to win the talent acquisition process.