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Machine Learning Is Your Secret Weapon For Customer Acquisition

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by Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage. While machine learning does fall under the larger category of artificial intelligence (AI), it’s a bit more specific and can be extremely effective technology to pair with your customer and prospect database. www.act.com ).

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Four Marketing Automation Solutions Every SMB Should Have In 2020

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by Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage. Chad Ruff serves as chief technology officer at Swiftpage , provider of leading cloud-enabled CRM and marketing automation platform Act! Ruff also founded marketing automation platform Salesfusion where he served as both CEO and CTO.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Jeffryes , Xavier Baez Gutierrez , Jason Lang , Ben Hebert , Zubin Jatindar Tiku , Cyrill Schneider , Chad Mueller , Sara Chipps , Rob Della Fortuna , Parand Tony Darugar , Clement Li and Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson You can build anything you'd wanna build with a developer, a designer, and a business/marketing/sales guy.

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

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I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job.

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