Best practices and future trends in B2B selling from Slack, Salesforce, Google, SAP, Apttus, and Microsoft. — Our app, Ruum takes over the project management for account executives with complex sales motions. So naturally, we used our latest San Francisco trip as an opportunity to connect with some of the Valley’s brightest minds in sales. Here is what we learned… Growth mindset When the topic fell on hiring and…

A bit over six months ago we got seed funding for RUUM 🚀. My co-founder Florian Frey and I felt on top of our game. We had a fancy looking MVP; we had an excellent lineup of beta customers and even a few letters of intent from well-known brands. However…

Next to 2016’s most notable trends: Bots, NLP, AI, and conversational commerce. Here are some product lessons that didn’t get as much fanfare as they might deserve. And of course, we want to apply them on RUUM 🚀. Seamless device hand-over: Spotify Connect, OS X Handoff, and Universal Clipboard Connect — Spotify’s multi-device mechanism — launched in 2013. But it’s only…

Inside Google’s Launchpad, the ultimate pre-incubator startup week A few weeks back I was one of the lucky few to participate in Google’s Launchpad program. Held at Google’s London Campus, it’s a pre-incubator program for startups. True to Google’s mantra: “Fail early, to succeed sooner,” the goal is to experience…

After four days of non-stop web performance (first at @velocityconf then at @WebPerfDays) here is a list of my main takeaways in three parts. — Layout trashing is your bottleneck As Google’s @aerotwist put it: Today it’s most likely layout trashing and image re-sizing which are preventing your web app from hitting a smooth 60 frames per second. Prevent layout trashing and document re-flows by separating and batching your reads from your writes to the DOM (checkout the FastDOM library…

Twitter’s front-end framework from the ground up — I noticed that flight.js was missing the typical no frills ‘Hello World’ example, so here goes my stab at one. In this hello world we will use flight.js' standalone version to create a basic component, which attaches to the DOM and writes out an h1 heading on user click. …