Hacking for Sales, Part 5
Until now, we’ve played mostly with APIs and page scrapes. In this lesson, we dive a little bit deeper into the later …
Hacking for Sales, Part 4
Recently, I got curious what other companies received funding, and when the funding event happened. There’s no better resource for this data …
Startup lessons learned in the 2012 NYC Marathon
Before Hurricane Sandy hit New York, I expected to run 26.2 miles through all five boroughs of New York City, starting in …
Hacking for Sales, Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2, we covered techniques for how to scrape data from pages on Crunchbase. Well, I have news …
A Tale of Two Pitches
I spent two days in Seattle a few months ago for a business trip, and as I walked to the rental car …
Five Years of Typing Dvorak
Painters use lots of brushes. Rock musicians have dozens of guitars. Seamstresses rarely have just one sewing machine. You’re a writer; why …
Hacking for Sales, Part 2
In the last post, we introduced a lot of programming concepts and pulled one page of results from Crunchbase. In this next …
Hacking for Sales, Part 1
I’ve been a Python sales hacker for about two years. I taught myself Python so I could become better at sales. And …
Why I learned to program
There’s been a lot of interesting talk recently about what it means to be “technical.” If someone asked me if I’m technical, …
What I’ve Learned about Internet Marketing
We’ve come along away since Scripted launched about a year ago. We have funding, interns, and more than one full-time engineer. All …