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

ReadWriteStart

Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. The company already has paying customers and a validated product. The value proposition is definitely interesting and the company has already validated with customers.

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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. If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. I have also included quotes from Austin CTOs to give you additional perspective.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

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. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking.

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Marketing Automation: Solving Problems At The Push Of A Button

YoungUpstarts

Marketers hope to disseminate information and inspire sales. Otherwise, a number of internal processes results in lower sales and poorer engagement. Link Architecture. Using automation for link architecture improves search engine optimization and click-through rates. by Alex Miller, Co-founder of PosiRank .

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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. Here, we’ll take a look at six ways to enhance your sales pipeline with a CRM. How long is your sales cycle?

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Combining the bottom up, user-driven model with forward thinking IT execs has resulted in shortened enterprise sales cycles across our portfolio and some phenomenal reference customers. and we expect this trend to continue. Edge computing will come back ?—?data data everywhere?—?can’t Security will continue to remain white hot? —?new

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EverString’s Vincent Yang: X-man at Work

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Gaurav and Diaz had anticipated this move and built the right architecture in their data marts right from the start. He built an architecture which anticipated the bigger follow on ideas. Competitors have tried to cobble together a competing offering, but are held back by their underlying architectures.