Work productivity tips and CRM hacks for the leading enterprise
You’re a fresh new startup. You have 6 people on the team. Half of your team is the product development team. If you’re lucky, you’ve got another guy working with you in sales and marketing. If you’re not, it’s only you. You’re competing with companies who have established sales teams, with leads coming through the [...]
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Working from home, coffee shops, and alternative locations are becoming more of a reality for workers in North America. The benefits seem so obvious: no commutes, working in your PJs, and all your facilities at your disposal. But what about the underlying challenge? How do you maintain work productivity? When your job requires a high [...]
2 It is extremely difficult and very competitive to win consumer mindshare. There are great products and services that are not being used because they have failed to prove they’re 10x better than the existing alternative. Yes. TEN TIMES. That’s the threshold of incremental improvement a new product must provide to overcome the switching cost a consumer [...]
0 As we were starting our company we had some glaring disadvantages that we saw could be solved with a remote structure as well as opportunities to turn them into advantages. Cash – We just didn’t have it. So $1,400 / month in savings was helpful. Focus – We needed more focus and to move quicker. [...]
0 Paul recently wrote an answer on Quora to a question on “what does it feel like to be the CEO of a startup?”. It was a very raw recollection of emotions and stories. I thought we’d share some excerpts on our blog. You can read the full answer here. Very tough to sleep most nights [...]
1 When Ecquire was founded it was actually called Dropcard in an accelerator near UPenn’s campus. The technical co-founders at the time, Ariel and Anton, either had two years of school or a job they’d accepted ahead of them. So, unless what we truly had the next Facebook on our hands, that’s what they were going [...]
8 Ah, spring. Birds chirping, bees humming, and the annual ritual of tech startups kicking off accelerators. Ecquire went through two incubators, one in 2008 and one in 2011. Yep, that’s like repeating third grade twice, but at least now we’re “experts” at utilizing startup accelerators, if nothing else. Looking back at 2008 (DreamIt Ventures) we totally [...]
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Launching your Chrome Extension is technically very straightforward. However, getting the most from Google’s Chrome Web Store (especially in terms of traffic) is less obvious. Here’s what we at Ecquire have learned from launching on the Chrome Web Store. 1. Beautify Your Chrome Extension Load the Chrome Web Store – look at all the pretty [...]
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