Yeah its been a while, I was recharging my batteries, resting my brain, and dealing with some reality. But expect more Conrey is for Closers this week.

What do you do when you are outselling capacity? Is it a good thing? The proverbial “Good problem to have?” or are you harming yourself long term? A good salesman should be in sync with the production team wherever possible without letting them hold themselves back. The sales force should be the foot [...]

I’ve recently been reading Drive by Daniel Pink, who you see above in his TED talk. The basis of the book is that people are motivated differently by intrinsic and extrinsic things. Pink argues that for creative work, extrinsic motivation leads to short term success but is not a good long term method [...]

As part of my “reclaiming my commute” push, I’ve been listening to Punk Marketing on audiobook this week. This is not an old book, it came out in February of 2007, but the sense of how dated the examples and references are are amazing after just 3 years.
Myspace was still huge, Twitter didn’t [...]

I’ve been in Boulder this whole week for Boulder Startup Week and being here has reminded me of all the awesome things from my 5 years here previously. I’m not the only one effusive with my praise for this rapidly growing tech town. See Chris’s writeup at RWW, or the Tweet stream for [...]