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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. You can scale much better.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. You can scale much better.

Cofounder 274
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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. Using the business model canvas, the changes to their business were obvious.

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