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Benaissance — A new name and a new blog
I am very proud to announce that we have just launched a new name for our company — Benaissance, Reinventing Benefits Administration. In all our free time, we have also started a company blog. Please grab a cup of coffee and check out the new site and the blog. I’ll mostly be posting thoughts about sales [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Importance of your People
We’ve been just a little bit busy lately. The company is in full ramp, scaling rapidly, and our sales activity is intense. Add three children ages four and under at home, and I haven’t had a lot of blogging time. I had to take a moment today though to make a quick statement about the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Satisfaction
I enjoyed the Eagles win over the Redskins yesterday. I wasn’t jumping up and down with excitement like I was a few years ago when the team was on the path to the Super Bowl, but I was on the edge of my seat through the fourth quarter, and I did do a little dance [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Imprecise Precision and Company Valuation
My Eagles aren’t so good this year, and I’m the kind of sports fan who ties my emotions pretty tightly to the fate of my team (at least until the last whistle blows and I go back to being my kids’ dad). I don’t get loud or violent when my team stinks, but I do [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Evhead, the Valley, and the Awesome Power of Communication
Evan Williams (Nebraska native and co-founder of two Silicon Valley companies that produced Blogger and now Twitter) has written a great post sharing his experiences and thoughts on the pros/cons of the Valley versus anywhere else from the perspective of both an individual wanting to get into the game and an entrepreneur building a new tech startup. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A Startup SaaS Company in Omaha and Pmarca
I’m a big fan of Marc Andreessen’s PMARCA blog. I and thousands of others greatly appreciate the time he spends to share his experience and wisdom so freely with so many. His early series of posts on The Pmarca Guide to Startups, especially Part 1: Why not to do a startup, are wonderful reading for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )CTOs and Market Driven Companies
What is a CTO? I’ll do better than tell you, I’ll show you. My friend Niel Roberston is posting again, and I think his blog is one of the best peeks inside the mind of a great CTO you can find. His most recent post is titled Do Programming Languages Matter Anymore? I had the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )When is hearing the F-bomb a good thing?
I’m not exactly a choir boy. You can’t spend four years in one of the largest fraternities at Dartmouth and be a saint (you do know Chris Miller who wrote Animal House went to Dartmouth?) . I’ve also spent most of my professional life selling enterprise software, and when high-end sales people are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Power of Face-to-Face
Don’t let my VP Ops title confuse you. I’m a sales geek at heart. In a good startup you have a small team of great people who all wear many different hats. In our case, my title simply means I work hand-in-hand with John and John (our CEO and VP of Technology), our Director of Payment Processing, our [...]
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