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Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 6 – Will Roper

Steve Blank

Acquisition, technology, and logistics. In some of our class sessions you’ve heard about how acquisition in the Department of Defense hasn’t kept up with new threats, adversaries, and new technologies. But Will Roper who runs Air Force acquisition, technology and logistics, gives lie to that assertion. He gets it.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round.

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8 predictions that will affect the way we sell this decade

NZ Entrepreneur

It’s about becoming more agile. If you don’t know this stuff, you’re missing a whole world of sales insight that could direct your customer acquisition and retention strategies. They’re not used to hearing the phone ring, or answering it, or keeping a telephone conversation going. 2) Business Authenticity. 5) Outbound Sales.

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9 Things That Tell You To Pivot

YoungUpstarts

You have lots of sign ups, you’ve smashed your acquisition targets and the first slide of your pitch deck looks great! Managing your cash position when forecasted sales aren’t being achieved is tough, and if you are spending more than you are generating and cash piles are dwindling, now is the time to address your financial position.

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From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices

Software By Rob

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. at 6:53 pm How very true!

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Web Analytics: Frequently Asked Questions And Direct Answers

Occam's Razor

More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. And if you came back again, in less than 29 mins on the keyword "Avinash is not awesome" and saw ten pages and converted then that kw will show zero visit, 10 pages and one conversion.

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[INTERVIEW] Jonathon Karelse, NorthFind Partners Co-Founder and Partner

YoungUpstarts

It’s the kind of environment where people may think that concepts like business forecasting or change management are all well and good, but really the province of big businesses – not more fledgling organizations. It happens because they often neglect the forecasting and planning that helps them prepare.