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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Build a Talented Team of Technology and Business Professionals. Having both startup and third-party project work available keeps any technology staff busy on both client and startup work throughout the year. This approach exposes IT pros to the latest technologies while providing experience in many different business sectors.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. Automation engines from the other side: powerful products that aren’t completely unaware of the stack that you’re using and the data it is producing.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

This technology helps brands have a glimpse into their consumer lives – even though the brand is not mentioned explicitly in their social media posts, but is only present in the photos they publish. With technology and social media we are always on today 24/7. Thanks to Dan Goldstein, Page 1 Solutions, LLC ! #11- 11- Two goals.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. Would you mind sharing them?

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently. 20% initial ownership. He writes periodically at teten.com. .

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian. What a great idea.