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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.

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

ConversionXL

That was designed to allow information storage and manage customer contact information. Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past. All manual operations.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

Examples: Database apps like data.com , Hoover’s , Zoominfo , Prospect intelligence apps like Linkedin Sales Navigator and Charlie App. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Appointment scheduling apps like Mindbody and Appointy.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Do you have a bug database? I love Joels approach to usability, and I still recommend his free online book on UI design. I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups.

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Software Inventory

www.joelonsoftware.com

A design process (specs, whiteboards, mockups, etc). So every minute you spent writing down, designing, thinking about, or discussing features that are never going to get implemented is just time wasted. The bug database is obviously a great thing to have. Then close as “won’t fix” everything left in the bug database.

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Moneyball Design: Why the Research and Data Analysis is Critical to Getting Your Prospects to Convert

ConversionXL

We had two prospective clients this past week where their overall site design was good enough that they didn’t need a full redesign. You may have a great product or service and great design on your existing site, but you know you could be doing better. Good design isn’t. Good design is problem solving.”. –

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10 Business Areas Where Data Is The Key To The Future

Startup Professionals Musings

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. quintillion bytes of data — much of it unstructured and far beyond the capability of conventional databases. This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere.

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