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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. The company already has paying customers and a validated product. The value proposition is definitely interesting and the company has already validated with customers.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They shorten the sales cycle, mitigate risks, and provide assurance in the context of technical due diligence. They provide a variety of compliance solutions for such cases as SOCS and PCI.

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Marketing Automation: Solving Problems At The Push Of A Button

YoungUpstarts

Link Architecture. Using automation for link architecture improves search engine optimization and click-through rates. Using automation for link architecture improves search engine optimization and click-through rates. Defining an architecture helps engineers quickly generate and upload pages without outside assistance.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Combining the bottom up, user-driven model with forward thinking IT execs has resulted in shortened enterprise sales cycles across our portfolio and some phenomenal reference customers. and we expect this trend to continue. Edge computing will come back ?—?data data everywhere?—?can’t

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EverString’s Vincent Yang: X-man at Work

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Gaurav and Diaz had anticipated this move and built the right architecture in their data marts right from the start. He built an architecture which anticipated the bigger follow on ideas. Competitors have tried to cobble together a competing offering, but are held back by their underlying architectures.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs. Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard. SaaS reduces your sales cost but also means that VC is needed. That is just lipstick on a pig.

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