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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

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Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. competitiveness, catalyze the creation and retention of U.S.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Perhaps the more failures, the better?

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Fog Creek Compensation

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Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. Competence extends to architecture, user interface design, project planning, and other project-level issues.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Service-oriented architecture. billion in Federal funds for the implementation of IT in healthcare, which has shown to help lower our outrageous healthcare costs, reduce costly medical errors and improve patient outcomes. SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

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Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs.

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