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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower

Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. An obvious example would be in sales. You’re also learning directly about the skills of your sales staff by observing them in action.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

View from Seed

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

SoCal CTO

" Today I had two conversations with early stage startups (see Free CTO Consulting ). I’ve spoken to dozens of customers, I have a validated customer persona, built an MVP to test key behavioral hypotheses, and the data doesn’t back what you’re saying." " One was an enterprise software product. billion dollar mistake.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. Should she take a chance and potentially ruffle feathers?

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Further Thoughts on Startup Operations

Both Sides of the Table

This person can do budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, legal, HR, office moves, etc. Still, I’ll bet that functionally you divide areas of competence like sales & marketing, product, engineering, biz dev, etc. One great solution I see is to hire an outstanding CFO who runs both. But they aren’t the COO.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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