When Are You Ready to Hire Pure BigCo Guys Into Your Start-Up?
Lately I’ve had a chance to interview some terrific executives for start-ups that I’ve been helping on different levels. I’ve used it as an opportunity to, among others things, test some of my assumptions on what types of hires really work for SaaS companies at different phases. Once you start hiring up in SaaS, you’re […]
When Big Companies Can Kill You. And When They Can’t.
I remember every day, every moment, of both my start-ups with hyper-lucidity. But a few moments especially stand out. Those times when BigCo calls you up to their fancy office, and tells you they are going to enter your space and kill you. It happened to me twice at EchoSign. I’m not going to share […]
Zoho: Best LittleCo of 2008 that Could … and Will
Most CloudAve readers probably know that Zoho is our exclusive sponsor. When we launched in September, the speculation that this will turn us into nothing but a PR outlet for Zoho was inevitable. I think in these few months we have proven otherwise, by being very conservative with Zoho coverage (if anything, we have a […]
