Lesson Learned: How to Grow More, Faster
Acresis Founder Mark Hodges talks about his first experience as a Founder, what he learned and how the company both fell short and succeeded in its ultimate goals and exit when it was acquired by a much larger market leader. Hear about his experiences around building the right business models, sourcing talent, forming a sales organization, managing people and dealing with the dynamics of Silicon Valley in its hey-day of the dot.com boom. As Founders we often earn our stripes, not just in professional and financial rewards we gain, but in the experiences and scar tissue we develop from learning what not do to, as we are figuring out what actually works!