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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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The second bullet, getting feedback from customers is most often not valid either. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

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[and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. It got quite good reviews in the media: TechCrunch , LifeHacker & PandoDaily and many others. The team has put in a huge effort to get to this day – and I hope they’re sleeping well tonight.

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

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Your IT Reviewer. They’ll push you on your uptime SLA, they’ll push for harsher penalties for non-compliance, they demand security reviews … heck – if you’re small enough they’ll push for “ source code deposits.” Procurement (or Biz Dev Team or M&A Department).

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. If you don’t know WHY you’re adding features don’t do it just because you have a development team.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

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Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies.

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

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Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Who's the customer?

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