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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Winning the hearts and minds of developers matters and building the GTM around conversion and upsells will be key.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. After the games are played and the episodes released, reality constrains conversation. Outsiders, on the other hand, aren’t even aware that there is a secret. To amplify perceived value to woo Aspirants.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. After the games are played and the episodes released, reality constrains conversation. Outsiders, on the other hand, aren’t even aware that there is a secret. To amplify perceived value to woo Aspirants.

Customer 101
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You'll Figure It Out

aweissman.com

One evening we were doing this, and the conversation turned to the renewal of a content distribution deal with The New York Times, one of AOL's largest and most important partners. The difficult issue here, as with most of these, was whether AOL could demand exclusivity in exchange for distribution. Thus, the deadlock.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world.

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Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

Startup Lessons Learned

Im excited that well get more than the usual few minutes of Q&A, so come with a healthy appetite for conversation. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring someone with a scholarship to travel to the expo and contribute to the conversation, please leave a comment or let me know. You heard me right.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

In the course of a few conversations, the two men agreed upon a valuation and drafted an arrangement in which Graham would convert fees into an undisclosed amount of equity in Pro Player Connect. Take GlobalLogic , a $100 million software research and development company based in Vienna, Virginia. Graham liked the idea. Get ahead.

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