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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

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The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. What does a business leader do in this situation? The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. The reality is that it’s not a hard problem to address.

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Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge: The Make or Break Difference

Up and Running

Most successful business plans entail launching a new product, service, or distribution outlet that attacks existing market competitors on what military planners would term an exposed flank. A smart commander will mass forces against this flank, just as an astute business leader will pour resources into their flanking effort.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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In the model above, this was set to 10 deals per year per team. Lessons Learned – Business Planning Stage My advice to entrepreneurs working on a new business plan is to build a model similar to those above to estimate the cost of customer acquisition. Sometimes, the customer will want a trial with their own data.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. StackOverflow), is anemic.

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