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About David Skok

David is a serial entrepreneur who founded a total of four companies, and did one turn-around. In 2001, he joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a VC investor. Successful exits as a VC include: HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan and Enservio. David currently serves on the boards of Atomist, Apollo GraphQL, CloudBees, Namely, and Salsify.

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Welcome to the new forEntrepreneurs blog site!

Hello, and welcome to the re-designed forEntrepreneurs blog site!  

We’ve updated the design of the forEntrepreneurs blog site in an effort to bring you the same in-depth content and resources but with an improved experience. I wanted to make it

A Strong Team Starts at Onboarding

An Interview with Andrew Quinn of HubSpot

Having a high performing team means:

  • Hiring the right people
  • Creating a structure and culture for them to do great work
  • Equipping them with the knowledge and skills to work effectively

These first …

A Shockingly Common Way that Sales Misses Plan

It’s just after the end of a quarter, and for VC’s that means many board meetings to review how portfolio companies have performed. Over the years of doing this, I’ve been shocked and surprised how many times I’ve seen good …

Hiring Scorecard Example

 

The following is an example of a Hiring Scorecard, which was put together as an example for a blog post on recruiting. It shows the scorecard that was used to hire a Matrix Partners Associate.

Mission

Lead proactive research, …

Bridge Group 2015 SaaS Inside Sales Survey Report

Survey results from 342 B2B SaaS companies on key inside sales metrics including group structure, ramp and retention, quota and compensation, activity & technology and leadership.

Intro

The SaaS model has become mainstream, and is everywhere. Gone are the early …

Consumerization of the Enterprise – Phase 2

Consumer VCs like to make light of the Founders Fund mantra ‘We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.’ For those of us working in the enterprise, it’s actually the reverse, “They promised us 140 characters, instead we got …