9 Sales Incentives I Wish I Knew on Day 1
Setting effective sales incentives and pay structures that motivate your sales reps can make the difference between hitting or missing your targets. This article is what I would have wanted […]
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Enplug named in Forbes 30 Under 30
The best characterization of the success of a business is by its revenue and net income, but awards are a nice way to remind our team to celebrate our milestones. I’m […]
Fortune’s 2015 Top 10 Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs: Enplug
Since 2009, Fortune Magazine selects its Top 10 Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs. I remember learning about the list in college and setting a goal to one day build a company that would […]
#1 R&B group on YouTube performs a song I wrote
My ridiculously talented friend, Pascal Guyon, and I wrote a song one random weekend. Guess who picked up our track and performed it? None other than the #1 R&B group […]
8 Odd Ways to Build a Family Culture at Your Company
I’ve worked at companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s. Most described themselves as having a “family-style culture.” They do happy hours, bring cake into work for birthdays, and host bring-your-kids-to-work days. In my mind, […]
Recorded piano and violin version of song from 50 Shades of Grey
Last weekend, AK Barnett-Hart and I were both in Colorado visiting family. We decided to meet up and play some impromptu music together. We decided to go with Ellie Goulding’s […]
I interviewed the founders of Waze, Vizio, Match.com, Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s what they said.
For the past month, our Enplug team has been putting together a free downloadable book with 33 secret recipes of building great company culture. You can use these for your own […]
Book Recommendations: cadavers, digestion, and orgasms
Amazon’s book recommendation algorithm was when it put non-fiction writing by Mary Roach at the top of my “Books you may like” list. For the next month, I read three of her […]
We’re named in Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30!
Inc. Magazine named Enplug in their 2015 30 Under 30 list! Inc.’s team certainly did a great job keeping things under wraps because we had no idea until it was […]
Enplug on the cover of Marie Claire UK
This definitely brought a lot of laughter into Enplug’s office: Gwyneth Paltrow and Enplug sharing the April cover of Marie Claire UK magazine. Can you guess which article title is referring […]
8 Affordable Ways to Make Your Team Happier and More Productive
When it was just the 5 co-founders and two engineers, it was easy to maintain our fierce, productive, and fun culture. But as we grew to 10, 15, then 20, […]
Here’s the song I wrote with a Grammy-winning songwriter
It’s not every day that you get to meet a Grammy-winning and multi-platinum songwriter. So when I met Pascal Guyon at a friend’s dinner, I immediately told him that I […]
5 Company Team Activities To Try
In the 2 years since we started Enplug, we’ve tried a lot of different team activities, some cliched and many unconventional. We’ve gone ice skating, attended concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, […]
EnplugEmails: The 94 silly awards we gave out to our teammates
EnplugEmails are a series on my blog of actual emails sent to my teammates at Enplug. I’m sharing these because it may give other startup founders ideas. Before the end […]
EnplugEmails: The 17 companies that became $1+ billion in 2014
The EnplugEmails series on my blog are real emails that I’ve sent to my teammates at Enplug. I’m sharing some of these emails because I thought they might be useful to other […]
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