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JULY 1, 2010

So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases. At my first company we went with Oracle because it had better handling of “ clustering &# at the time where we could have multiple instances of databases that we could keep synchronized.

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Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

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MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I spent time on college campuses. I attended events. I did speaking gigs.

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Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

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MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I spent time on college campuses. I attended events. I did speaking gigs.

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. They want junior staff to work on proposals for them. You’re a startup.

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