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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Here’s what was exceptional about Larry: Potent Leadership Skill. A corollary to Larry’s leadership style was that, at least in my day, he did it with great humor, lots of off-the-cuff funny stuff. The choice of the SQL a way to ask questions (queries) in an easy-to-understand language. Lessons Learned.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. Someone with strong analytical intuition can become a strategic thought partner with the leadership team and functional leaders.

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Sales and Marketing Misalignment Is Costly—But Avoidable

ConversionXL

What defines an SQL? After noticing frustration, a couple members of the leadership team sat down in a one-on-one meeting to talk through everyone’s understanding of term definitions and set a final, mutual definition. . But confusion is common: What is a lead? What defines an MQL?

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Although I have an EE and CS education, my best contribution to technology businesses has been in strategy/sales/marketing/leadership. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire. What is Drupal?

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Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

Peter, with his rich background in data analytics and his leadership at Databox, brings a fresh perspective to the challenges and opportunities in the world of marketing analytics. And then once you do that, learn how to write SQL or use this thing and look at all your data and then extract the right metric.

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Technology stack choice for startups

kenegozi.com

Specifically, MySpace were driven by bad business decisions (like using a 3rd party package for its core functionality - the social engine), and bad management and leadership (it is owned by an old-media corporation, which is a firm believer in pre-web2.0 It is classic "Not My Fault Lets Blame Someone Else" syndrome. activerecord(23).

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

So the process in B2B looks a bit like this (simplified): Visitor → MQL → SQL → customer. Depending on your personas and sales process, your content could be a few different things: Long form content has plenty of benefits, like thought leadership, SEO traffic, and authority building pieces. Account-Based Marketing. Image Source.

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