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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

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This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" Structured Data refers to information organized in a defined manner, making it easier to search and analyze. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. What should not be in your deck? Many of my colleagues do, too.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. What's your background?

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

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This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. Minimize Any Custom Work That Will Not Feed Back Into Your R&D. While I’d like to say that you should never do custom work that changes the scope of your product that’s not wholly realistic.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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Service as a bridge to a product business - One of the best ways for young startups to finance their business without any dilution is what I call “customer financing,&# which is mostly only possible in businesses that target businesses rather than consumers. You own the IP you create. It’s pure irony.

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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

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Clearly in an enterprise customer this is unlikely. The most likely outcome if you manage to interest the senior exec (for the sake of this post let me call her the CEO) is that she will refer you down the organization to somebody who would be involved in the decision. The benefits of this are clear: 1. The Case for Calling Low.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free….

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