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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. Create accessible technology. Build the technology to suit your customer. The most amazing outcomes start as lofty ambitions.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. Athenahealth version 1.0 was a complete failure.

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Our latest investment: Shift Messenger, a communication tool designed for hourly workers

Version One Ventures

Four reasons: It’s designed for an underserved vertical. While there are plenty of collaboration and communication tools built for office workers – such as Slack, HipChat, and Yammer – few tools cater to the 600 million global/30 million U.S. No integration, or approval, is required with managers or enterprises.

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How Startups Can Keep Product Development Lean

YoungUpstarts

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. The focus of the management team is largely internal – how do we cut cost without impacting the offering? A technology start-up is very different. The objective of a start-up is to discover a business model that works.

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Lara Galloway’s Time Management Tips and Productivity Hacks [VIDEO]

Up and Running

I had the pleasure of co-hosting a free Bplans webinar with Lara Galloway, a business coach and time management expert. In the webinar, Lara offered some excellent time management tips and productivity hacks. Raise your hand if you are the CEO of your company, and by “CEO,” I mean “chief everything officer.”

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Client-Side Vs. Server-SideA/B Testing Tools: What’s The Difference?

ConversionXL

Tim Ash was quoted in a TrustRadius report , summing up the difference between the two types of tools very well: Tim Ash: “With server-side tools, the content management systems are building in testing, maintaining multiple versions of content and serving them up based on segmentation. content management provider).

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