Full-Time Business Development Manager | ANY MARKET (US)
About the job:
You are an A Type personality with the ability to adapt to changing situations.
You love working on the next big thing in marketing.
You are a creative thinker who knows how to speak intelligently about technology driven engagements.
You work independently, but can take direction easily.
Helps develop processes and tools that help drive inbound leads
About you:
5+ years experience in business development
BA in Marketing or equivalent
Excellent verbal and written skills
Proven track record of success
Up-to-date understanding of the current emerging tech trends
Ability to work with a team as well as independently
Likes working in a fun environment
About working @ Plunk:
Plunk is a group of passionate individuals who work hard and play hard. We are a growing company who is planting our flag in the marketing world. You will enjoy a great team with a passion for helping our clients change the way they interact with their customers.
We are located on the SE side of Portland with easy access to public transportation. Our office is small, but features great local eats, bike parking, and easy access to the east esplanade walking path. We offer great compensation as well as an equity stake in the company. Our success is your success.
How to apply:
Send us your resume
Tell us about your successes
Tell us about your failures
Send to jobs@plunkus.com and we’ll reach out if you are a fit
So moved by this post! I wish more CEOs had the courage to post their feelings about how tough it is to keep things together in the face of adversity. This is well thought out, well worded, and completely amazing. THANK YOU for putting a spotlight on what is something most CEOs are afraid to talk about for fear that it makes them look weak. Bravo! Keep it coming. Keen.io is an amazing product and I wish you and your team all the best!
While I don't agree with all the points, the best advice in here is:
"But for all that is good and holy, don’t join a startup for the fucking money."
If you're joining or starting a company because you think you're going to buy a yacht and a small island, stop it! Recently I've seen some Founders tweeting things that make me shake my head every day. You're not going to be rich unless you have that once in a lifetime solution no one else is building. That's why it's called, "winning the startup lottery." It's still a fucking lottery. :)
There are thousands of small, private technology businesses worth millions or tens of millions of dollars across the US, that have taken little to no venture capital, and in which the founders have very large equity stakes in their own business.
It does not require the equivalent to winning the lottery to get rich with a technology business. The odds are several magnitudes greater that you'll get rich creating a technology business than playing the powerball.
Being worth $4 million, and having a small business that generates $650,000 per year in profit, is rich.
Getting rich with a start-up in Silicon Valley, given the approach used there, is like playing the lottery. The start-up lottery you're referring to only exists in SV / SF. Nearly everywhere else, the fundamentals of having an operating business still rule - in that world, a lot of people get rich running smaller technology businesses. $50 million or $500 million rich? Nope, $5 million rich. Silicon Valley is mostly all or nothing, and that's what makes good outcomes so relatively rare.
Exactly what I tell my startup friends. I know people who run design consulting firms and pull in $300-500k/year in profits. Some run SEO/SEM marketing agencies and do similar figures. They give themselves generous salaries and own nearly 80-90% of their businesses which, on paper, are worth $4-5M.
That's definitely very, very well-off, if not F-U rich. And it's very "safe", unless your $1M in revenue hinges entirely on one or two clients
It's safe but it's also exponentially more difficult than starting a startup.
The amount of connections one would need to start a business tomorrow generating $500k in annual profits is insurmountable.
Being a successful consulting agency or freelancer is attainable in two ways:
1. Know a lot of people at a lot of very large companies that are willing to throw you a bunch of work.
2. Build up clientele for a very long time making no money until you hit critical mass.
When I was freelancing it was one of the worst experiences of my life, so of course I'm bias. But I want readers to know that there are 2 sides to every coin.
Exponentially more difficult than starting a startup? No shit, all you have to do to start a startup is say you started one and give a vague semblance of the idea.
Thanks for sharing. I've heard numbers like these quoted before with respect to other small or medium sized businesses like franchising a fast-food chain and a question just occurred to me. For the people you know, are the owners' salaries taken before the profits as part of the operating expenses or do the salaries come out of the 300-500k of profits?
Also many successful startup were not the one that came up with original idea, they mostly improved on existing products or better marketed themselves.
Here's what I believe: startups are for "fun" money. For "real" money, you'll do far better doing a traditional business where you're guaranteed a return on investment.
I'm talking about consulting, franchises, etc. You won't hit it out of the ballpark and TechCrunch won't feature you, but you sure as hell will have money in the bank.
What I've realised is that most startups are just traditional businesses, but done with a bit more digital marketing. Selling product, selling services, b2b, etc.
It's only a few startups that are purley technology startups, the majority are actually traditional.
Yes, this is something that makes me scratch my head too. People tend to confuse tech companies with tech-assisted companies.
Microsoft is a tech company; it's business is making and selling technology.
The small eCommerce store that does about $0.5M in revenue using wooCommerce? That's not so much a tech startup as it is a tech-assisted startup. Yet, people continue to confuse the two.
The thinking that you are going to get rich via a startup is a very concrete sign that you are in a bubble. Create a startup because you want to do something that can’t be done in a big company, or because you think it will be fun, but don’t do it for the money.
This reply makes me think of Craigslist and how it was really meant to be a community based platform for people to do or sell whatever they wanted. Add that they have/had a pretty active forum which was also a quasi-democracy in which the community decided what was good or bad.
I think this is what was intended for Product Hunt, but somewhere along the line something happened and this became a bit skewed.
I've never met Ryan, but I know many that have. It sounds like this was not a product meant to build on the "boys club" but to let people know about cool shit people were building. Eventually it became THE place to find new products and services to a point where, if you were launching a product, posting and having it upvoted on Product Hunt was/is a must.
From my perspective, that's not being a horrible person. That's creating something that people trust. Sounds like innovation to me.
Used to use Shoutcast for an internet radio thing I did. While it wasn't the most intuitive thing to set up, once it was working it never broke. Interesting to see that someone has found value in both WinAmp and Shoutcast when there are so many other solution that make it much easier to listen and/or broadcast music.
I still use it. Mpd has a shoutcast server built in and I use that to stream audio to various computers from my homebrew mp3 collection administration. Very useful.
1) I think the pricing is too low. If someone has more than 1 property chances are they can afford much more than $10 or even $50 a month. If you're offering such a robust platform, charge what it's worth, not what you think will help you gain traction.
2) You might want to reach out to the folks at NoAppFee.com (https://www.noappfee.com/). I see both companies being able to benefit from some sort of collaboration. If you need an intro let me know.
3) Make this mobile/tablet friendly. Most property managers are out in the field managing their properties and would likely appreciate the flexibility of managing things on the go.
Great idea. Love the added value of the reporting. You may also want to think of adding some sort of scoring system for the renters based on their history so Property Managers can see quickly how much of a risk someone is. Seems like this would be pretty simple to do if you are already grabbing the data.
Thank you! Checking out NoAppFee.com and thinking of how I can incorporate this into the platform.
The site should be mobile/tablet friendly, was it not working for you?
1) Your signup page (the link for this post) doesn't say anything about what you do. The signup page and "what is this?" page should be the same.
2) Your landing page at brightwork.io is painfully slow. Don't make us watch animations to find out what you do. Put it in static text so we can read it as quickly as we want.
3) I watched the painfully slow animations, and I still have no clue what you do. Tell me what pain point you're eliminating or what I'll be able to do with your product that I couldn't do before.
Brightwork makes it easier for Developers to gather data from their mobile applications.
What makes Brightwork different is really the ease of use of the dashboard. There are other API Management tools out there, but Brightwork takes the best of the available mobile APIs and puts them in one place for Developers to be able to figure out what's working and what's not working. Think Cloudability, but with data.
Brightwork is a data API aggregation tool. When you're done building whatever mobile application you've built you likely want to collect data (usage, demographic, etc). Most Developers use more than 1 data API because not every tool collects everything someone wants to collect. So they use multiples because they want to fill in the gaps where they exist.
Brightwork allows Developers to hook in one API ours, and then funnel that information through it to a dashboard where all that data can now be combined, better collected, and better understood.
Once you have the data you want, you can just hit the "Export Tool" which will then output your report in a very easy to use format. Brightwork takes all the heavy lifting out of data collecting.
Great question. Segment is not entirely focused just on data. If you look at their integrations, they have over 130 possible integrations of an array of options.
I think the other big difference is the dashboard. Brightwork will be a great tool to save time when trying to combine and collect data.
This made me chuckle. I'm sure Twitter has made some missteps, but it's tough to let people go. They are putting just as much trust in you as you are of them. It becomes more tough as you grow, but the sting is still there. You want people to feel like they are worth something. And when you fall short it's a hit to everyone including management. I've been on both sides of these and people move on. This too shall pass.
About the job:
You are an A Type personality with the ability to adapt to changing situations. You love working on the next big thing in marketing. You are a creative thinker who knows how to speak intelligently about technology driven engagements. You work independently, but can take direction easily. Helps develop processes and tools that help drive inbound leads
About you:
5+ years experience in business development BA in Marketing or equivalent Excellent verbal and written skills Proven track record of success Up-to-date understanding of the current emerging tech trends Ability to work with a team as well as independently Likes working in a fun environment About working @ Plunk:
Plunk is a group of passionate individuals who work hard and play hard. We are a growing company who is planting our flag in the marketing world. You will enjoy a great team with a passion for helping our clients change the way they interact with their customers.
We are located on the SE side of Portland with easy access to public transportation. Our office is small, but features great local eats, bike parking, and easy access to the east esplanade walking path. We offer great compensation as well as an equity stake in the company. Our success is your success.
How to apply:
Send us your resume Tell us about your successes Tell us about your failures Send to jobs@plunkus.com and we’ll reach out if you are a fit