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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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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. Selling to many in the enterprise typically involves selling either to SMBs (where the owner/operator makes the decision on their own) or selling directly to end users (employees) in the organization. These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved.

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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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How Technology and Training Fueled One Ad-Based Company’s Growth

ReadWriteStart

That’s when he reached out on Twitter to make connections, and AJ Wilcox connected him to Dennis Yu, the chief technology officer at BlitzMetrics, which is now one of the top Facebook agencies worldwide. When Young first met Yu, Young didn’t even know who Mark Zuckerberg was.

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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.

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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. Why are we excited about Shift Messenger?

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How Startups Can Keep Product Development Lean

YoungUpstarts

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Both start-ups and established businesses need to conduct product development; however, the environment in which each operates necessitates a different approach to this same function. Conclusion.