lanstein

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by lanstein 6y ago
You can do whatever you want on your last day at Amazon.
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by lanstein 6y ago
Sure, and you can look at a list of recurring meetings and people can cancel them. Or you cancel all of them and see which ones get recreated. One way is probably more effective.
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by lanstein 7y ago
Hi there, the email field doesn’t show up - you need to put it in your about section for people to see it :)
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by lanstein 7y ago
No chance he’s playing someone else’s drums :) Source: he was my teacher
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by lanstein 7y ago
Suggestion: put your email in your ‘about’ field so someone can remedy that :)
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by lanstein 8y ago
Yup, that's exactly what I did. Your email doesn't show up (needs to be in the blurb not the email field) so just drop me a line.
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by lanstein 8y ago
My colleague and I started the sales team at PagerDuty. We were both engineers. Happy to meet for coffee in SoMa if anyone with revenue would like a short 1:1. I've done this a number of times over the years and hopefully those folks h
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by lanstein 11y ago
lol #ifdef VMS[0] [0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=488759...
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by lanstein 11y ago
A million times yes. So obvious and yet I don't remember seeing this once in the last batch of stock option posts. My personal favorite signal: there has to be some number of people that are saying 'I LOVE your product!' Simi
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by lanstein 11y ago
One common theme from the YC CEOs I've talked with (maybe 8-10 - small sample size, etc.) is that post-YC they don't know the basics of sales (what a purchase order is, etc.). It would not surprise me if this was part of the reas
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by lanstein 11y ago
Nice! Reminds me of my project to hook up my lineman's handset to our IP phone system at Splunk :)
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by lanstein 12y ago
As always, I'm happy to meet for coffee in SF with any founders who want to talk about SaaS sales in detail. I was the first sales hire at PagerDuty. Email in profile. To start to answer, do annual deals whenever possible. Large co
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by lanstein 12y ago
Especially since I always called Slackware 'Slack'
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by lanstein 12y ago
Based on the prices here: http://www.heliny.com/ it's plausible, since only the first ride is $99. Travel time is correct too: http://www.newyorkhelicopter.com/airport-transfers/
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by lanstein 12y ago
If anyone has questions about building a sales team, I'm happy to discuss over coffee if you're in SF. I was the first sales hire at PagerDuty. Email is in profile.
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by lanstein 12y ago
If you were here already I'd invite you to PagerDuty's 12 Pubs of Christmas tonight. We don't have any rockstars. Anyone is welcome - we start around 5:30 at Red Dog.
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by lanstein 12y ago
To say nothing of the fact that large companies are not agreeing to these terms, they will have custom MSAs which dictate jurisdiction, etc.
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by lanstein 12y ago
Me
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by lanstein 12y ago
Do you still sell in picodollars? :)
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by lanstein 12y ago
You can opt to sell in the IPO/secondary, but otherwise you're generally free to trade when the trading window is open for current employees (typically) 180 days give or take post-IPO.
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by lanstein 12y ago
Took a while to realize the company in question is not called Politely.
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by lanstein 12y ago
Ken Coleman. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/04/11/ken-coleman-j...
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by lanstein 12y ago
We use Yesware's mail merge for the same thing, and you can set it to execute subsequent stages only for folks who haven't replied. It's really stupendous.
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PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises 27.2M(venturebeat.com)
1 points by lanstein 12y ago|0 comments
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by lanstein 12y ago
Thank you very much! And fixed :)
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by lanstein 12y ago
More on this: "At the heart of Konqueror is the KHTML rendering engine (which was chosen by Apple to create WebKit, which today forms the basis for modern browsers like Safari and Chrome)." http://www.konqueror.org&#x2F
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by lanstein 12y ago
Was shocked for a second there Kord... :)
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by lanstein 12y ago
or the CISO
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What Loggly Learned About Scaling with Apache Storm(loggly.com)
9 points by lanstein 13y ago|1 comments
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by lanstein 13y ago
You might want to revisit your employment agreement.

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