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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. They will review and negotiate all related contracts. They shorten the sales cycle, mitigate risks, and provide assurance in the context of technical due diligence.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They looked at their watches, gave our sales guy a quizzical look and left.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

It’s the same process as sales and dating, and I know how to do both, well, at least sales… So, how hard can this be? Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Then, I needed to determine who is the right match for me. Every conversation that I had was very high quality.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. All it needs is multi methods and pattern matching and it would be the coolest language ever. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. William Pearson.

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