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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Conversation Management. Virtual Machines : pool resources of many different servers, thereby creating a virtual layer that offers automatic load balancing and higher levels of availability than the underlying hardware can offer Examples : Amazon EC2 , OpenStack Nova , MS Windows Azure , Google Compute Engine , IBM SmartCloud.

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Customer-Centric Strategies Win Over Product-Centric

Startup Professionals Musings

The customer lifetime value also must consider the customer stage (search, conversion, retention, advocate) and the profit you expect in total. The message here is skip the gut feel estimates, and plan on using one of the many predictive analytic tools , such as Sisence or Azure. Status factors are more important than demographics.

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Female Founders! Pitch for a Fast Track into Capital Factory with a $100,000 Investment

Austin Startup

Pitch for a Fast Track into Capital Factory with a $100,000 Investment was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Female Founders!

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Houston Startups can Pitch for a $50,000 Venture Investment

Austin Startup

Capital Factory Ventures Application Houston Startups can Pitch for a $50,000 Venture Investment was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Joining Get Satisfaction

Venture Chronicles

Over the summer I started working with Get Satisfaction as a result of a conversation that I had with my good friend Wendy Lea, who is the CEO of the company. Tags: Get Satisfaction Azure Capital First Round OATV Social CRM.

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