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How The IBM PC Made Me Appreciate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. Typically, team members must be sourced internally, with their performance and credentials based on prior corporate assignments and relationships. A single-minded focus and commitment is hard to maintain.

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9 Shopify Apps to Win More Ecommerce Sales

ConversionXL

Brands, especially those that have never done traditional retail, like Jet or Away, are winning buyers before they arrive on a site by focusing on “experiences” (not just transactions) and partnering with influencers. Fera can even tailor elements like reviews to feature past buyers whose profiles align with those of current shoppers.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? In my experience, it’s naive to think you can just “get developers to build the product” although it does sometimes work. Was it a case of needing Homework?

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Enterprise SEO: Don’t Outsmart—Out Execute

ConversionXL

Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. At Qualtrics, our mission is to create the Experience Management (XM) software category. Marketers build pages; developers build systems. We built the “What is XM?”

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned about revenue recognition.

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Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability

Duct Tape Marketing

20:05] Why wouldn’t you use a resource plan with your white label partners to some degree? [20:52] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So a lot of agencies track revenue, some actually even track profit, but you, if we're gonna optimize, um, profitability, what, what should we be measuring? Yes or no? [17:51]

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part One)

OnlyOnce

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. We all knew if the feature or function that the client was asking for was within the realm of the possible. • We were very, very focused on creating customers and revenue —We were a startup.