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

Steve Blank

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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

Steve Blank

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

Cofounder 280
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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. For some of the teams their expectation was if they built the product customers will come.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. These are very different.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Twitter is much more.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Virtually every production system has security bugs in it. The first reported compromise of a production system was in an industry which hit the trifecta of amateurs-at-the-helm, seedy-industry-by-nature, and under-constant-attack. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above.

Security 101
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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

I’ve contacted Blazemeter’s CEO Alon Girmonsky , to learn more about the product and the load-testing market. We will introduce open API so we can easily integrate to complementary products and allow them to integrate with BlazeMeter. Blazemeter real time reports and monitoring. We aim to sell through direct internet sales.

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