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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Even PhD analytics eggheads. For example, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) develops excellent technology in the data storage and knowledge management space, led by visionary Chief Technology Officer Hu Yoshida, and has won passionate customers in the process.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

I feel incredibly lucky, to work with an extraordinary group of individuals who are passionate about innovation (in all forms, in business models, funding structures and technology) AND I get to meet inspiring, brilliant entrepreneurs every day.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. But I don’t think so. Where is it?

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. This pitcher has retired 5 of the last 7 batters."

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

An analytical mindset that might be somewhat jaded from past ventures is going to take a hard look at your idea, and their reaction is likely to be sobering. As engineers we naturally have an analytical mindset, and like to break things down into black and white, absolutes and positives so we can make quick judgements.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? For example, Amplitude is a product analytics software. Sometimes the buyer is just too busy. They’re the CEO, they’re the CTO, they never are interested in testing out the product as well. That's great.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. Yet the team got the new service up and running and used this to power and grow their business for another 7 years, until they disrupted themselves again by moving aggressively to the streaming model.

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