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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. They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.).

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine. Twitter is much more.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. Maybe it is a 20% project by a junior engineer which he has on the back burner for the moment. Maybe it is the customer support portal at admin.example.com. dawmail333.

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