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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale. These acts can often be start of a viral growth curve in the enterprise. Final thoughts. appeared first on Version One Ventures.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? They usually have quality up and coming consultants expert in guiding you in "packaging" your idea. the nice thing is that to start, THEY PAY the consultant for you. Ryan Hornbeck , Computer and Cloud Systems Integrator. Rockstar v.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.

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

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Your vision is so limited that it’s scary to see that you are actually the CEO of a successful cloud platform. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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