Something I threw together over the weekend. I've been using filepicker on a website of mine. Realized that I could hack it to upload and share files in a simple tool.
Inspired by cloudApp, when I found myself wanting a command line version.
There's a big difference in psychology. Although it's only a rule of thumb, the best VP of sales can be a bit more introverted and detail-oriented than the salespeople they manage, who can be more outgoing, high-perseverence, cold calling types.
VP sales has to manage revenue pipelines, analyze sales reports, detect account losses, manage promotions, get involved in contract negotiations, etc.
Salespeople network, originate leads, cold call companies, build relationships, close deals, etc.
The best salespeople often make terrible VP sales.
In my opinion, hiring a VP of Sales makes sense if a large sales org is critical to your business success. Think global domination. Some VP of Sales depending on their background are better at 'optimizing' sales processes and personnel rather than experimentation and general hustle.
Once you have some traction and a solid product, a great VP of Sales will help you scale your early success rapidly.
For starters sales reps are individual contributors where are VP of sales tend to be organization builders. They hire sales folks and build a sales organization under them. So you should expect VP of sales to be much more senior and thus cost you more in salary and equity. A good VP of sales tends to get 1 or 2% of equity. That may vary though.
I would imagine that to be a bit more. So, a senior VP of sales at a reasonable company (not necessarily at a HP/Oracle etc.) makes $200K/y easily. If they are high performers then sales bonus and kickers (e.g. if you sell a $x mn. deal you get 1% of the deal value) easily take them into the $250-300K/year range. At some companies good sales guys/gals make more than the CEO itself. At larger companies like HP/Oracle/Salesforce.com etc those salary #'s are anywhere between $500K/year and $1million/yr
It would be great if all academic papers had a 140 word tl;dr version. Would save grad students a bunch of time. (Crack joke about how my phd is taking 2 years longer then expected)
I recognize the optimizely part. Good guys so I'm glad they've got LinkedIn using them to AB test.
I was able to duplicate it on the Profile Completion section as well. I didn't have as many '_*1's. Maybe my profile was more complete then yours? It seems like an odd way to keep track of progress regardless.
While I can't imagine myself using it anytime soon, it's clear that web applications are improving at a far faster rate then native applications and, with t large enough, the first derivative means that web will eclipse native.
This seems like an academic exercise at the moment; it's to prove that you can replicate a native experience only.
However, it seems that this could be vastly improved by playing to the strengths of the internet. The only online apps that have beat native ones so far have been because of cloud storage and collaboration. First, use filepicker.io or something so this can open my online files. Second, bake some collaboration into it.
GroupDocs currently provide an app for online annotation and collaboration, including accessing your files from different cloud storage providers, currently Azure & Amazon S3 are supported http://groupdocs.com/apps/annotation/try-it-now
