Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And of course on Twitter I’ve seen the Tweets, ReTweets and superlatives on what a great post it is. He also talks about the rate of growth and the need to pick targets, measure and question assumptions when you aren’t achieving your objectives. I talked about some of that here. So I like that bit, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. doesn’t care as much about the successful outcomes as I do). I highly recommend this strategy for any company who doesn’t care about referenceable customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. Think about Snapchat. With Tact we have been able to drive weekly usage about 75% because they are using it regularly on their mobile devices.” Why Invest?

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

And the narrative may tell you something about your own journey one day. Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future. Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future. Investors sat with the founder & CEO, Jason Spievak, and asked him what he wanted to do about the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. But, with this kind of an event, you're actually worried about restricting access to only the right people at an event.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle).

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

When prompted by his dad, the boy--let's call him Andrew--told me about the yo-yo business he had founded with a classmate. The dad was, of course, alluding to Google's frequently-used strategy to make available free services in otherwise paid markets to rattle competition and gain market share for advertising-supported products.

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Oracle Google Competition Marketing 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question.

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Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. And that is what is most disappointing about the feedback I’m getting about Seattle.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

When prompted by his dad, the boy told me about the yo-yo business he had founded with a classmate. When prompted by his dad, the boy —Andrew —told me about the yo-yo business he had founded with a classmate. The biggest lesson I learned here was about competing with “free.”

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Oracle Google Competition Marketing 63

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Of course that’s not true. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. Seriously, you DO need to be careful about not setting unattainable quotas. But a sales person needs to be able to demonstrate the business case of why using your product will deliver more total ROI than your competitors. You’re a startup. And finally.

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Sales Help Startup Pricing 382

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve talked many times on my blog about how they’re the lifeblood of most businesses – even those that pretend like they’re above it all. Of course that’s not true. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. Seriously, you DO need to be careful about not setting unattainable quotas. And finally.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

End users don’t care about the technical details anyway, so there has been some interesting work on standards for social activity streams and activity stream aggregation. Of course, in terms of how it will impact us at home and ultimately in business, as we’ve seen with Enterprise 2.0, There are others as well.

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