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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. After Office 2.0 Folksonomy.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

4 of our portfolio companies raised Series B financings with close to $70mm raised and an average financing size greater than $17mm?—?announced Yes, AWS and Azure will garner a bulk of this, but still requires significant new investment to easily monitor, manage and secure this sprawling infrastructure. data everywhere?—?can’t

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs. It is equally true for the brilliant developer who has to migrate to becoming a leader of managers.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Information architecture is how we arrange the parts to be understandable as a whole. Combine the brand marketing manager and the data analyst. David Nye: How to Manage a Large-Scale Testing Program. Test ideas came from HiPPOs, tests were often broken, development cycle was 6 weeks, only one analyst. Image Credit.