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

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. 10Screens is currently also a finalist in the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge. The company already has paying customers and a validated product.

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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 shorten the sales cycle, mitigate risks, and provide assurance in the context of technical due diligence. They provide a variety of compliance solutions for such cases as SOCS and PCI.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out. Folksonomy. Free product.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

When you have local Fortune 1000 IT execs who are looking to buy innovative technology combined with NYC enterprise startups and west coast VCs and founders building a presence here, you get an amazing recipe for a killer 2017. Enterprise companies get more comfortable purchasing from startups. and we expect this trend to continue.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

In simple terms the customer's risk of doing nothing has to be higher than the risk of buying software from an unknown startup. The sailboat startups don't invent a product out of pure imagination. Change in enterprise behavior takes way, way longer than most startups expect but when it comes it is swift, surprising and fundamental.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

After Goldman, ran startup Gadgetoff, which brought together inventors and entrepreneurs. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. 15 yrs at MS.

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Thoughts from a recent CIO dinner

BeyondVC

Repeatedly I heard about grid computing, security, and service oriented architectures. As for startups, not many were mentioned, and most of the technology buyers said your best bet was coming in through a larger partner whether it be a Sun, Cisco, HP, or IBM. The post Thoughts from a recent CIO dinner appeared first on BeyondVC.