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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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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. Autonomy to self-manage. The CTO’s role is to outline the technical vision and empower the team to execute.

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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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Marketing Automation: Solving Problems At The Push Of A Button

YoungUpstarts

In addition, larger corporations require ongoing management of automated tools and need to prove a return on investment to get approval from superiors. Link Architecture. Using automation for link architecture improves search engine optimization and click-through rates. Can we budget the resources needed to optimize efforts?

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

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. One area we are excited about is bringing back Business Process Management (BPM) in a lightweight way, DIY manner by leveraging AI and APIs. Edge computing will come back ?—?data

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Six Ways to Enhance Your Sales Pipeline with a CRM

Duct Tape Marketing

Six Ways to Enhance Your Sales Pipeline with a CRM written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Your sales pipeline is quite literally the thing that keeps you in business. That’s why managing it effectively is so critical. How long is your sales cycle? Establish a Clear Process for Managing Pipeline.

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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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