{"id":10028,"date":"2017-04-12T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=10028"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:19:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T22:19:02","slug":"christel-vander-boom-later-sells-her-startup-to-flipboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/christel-vander-boom-later-sells-her-startup-to-flipboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Christel vander Boom Later Sells Her Startup to FlipBoard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>Can a sales person live off of the commission selling your startup&#8217;s product?&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/638410306897612800\/N3sAM2UL_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Christel vander Boom (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xtel?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@Xtel<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xtel\/status\/11736135791?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">4\/6\/10, 8:21 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Advice to startups from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clintchao\">@clintchao<\/a>: think about sales. Can a sales person live off of the commission selling your product? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23vcsecrets&amp;src=hash\">#vcsecrets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Founders need to let sales-like people think about selling on strait commission. If they can only make $1200-4,000, your product is not fully formed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image1-35.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"95F1591C-7326-40E6-8E08-45D416B7846F\">\n<\/div>\n<div>You have a zero, non Minimally Viable Product<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Can a sales person live off of the commission selling your startup&#8217;s product?&nbsp; Christel vander Boom (@Xtel) 4\/6\/10, 8:21 PM Advice to startups from @clintchao: think about sales. Can a sales person live off of the commission selling your product? #vcsecrets Founders need to let sales-like people think about selling on strait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}