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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT. The discussion struck a chord with us.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Consumer approach to software for business users. My blog was wiped out. Folksonomy. Free product. Page 3: Competition.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” There are tons of possibilities.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Business Software. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. The beauty of software, in general, is that you have this concept of MVP. I never had to focus on building a sales team.

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