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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

Your IT Reviewer. This is the “deal prevention” team in many big corporations. They’ve had years of business-unit managers buying software solutions they didn’t need and that eventually become shelfware. Procurement (or Biz Dev Team or M&A Department). Biv Dev teams?

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I recently read this anecdote in the press (withholding company name because I actually really love the concept). I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. What did he know?

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. I never built Google.

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