Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Marketing Muscle. No Dave S. =

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred a candidate who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. It makes sense to assume that highly talented people will be in demand, and will want new challenges, so expectations of long-term job commitments are not realistic. Take chances on unconventional talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. Marketing is fluff and selling is black magic.” I need to go-it alone to assure quality and elegance.” Hence the pressure to deliver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. Marketing is fluff and selling is black magic.” I need to go-it alone to assure quality and elegance.” Hence the pressure to deliver.

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Entrepreneur Oracle Custom Customer 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In the early 1970s, the Seven-Up Company devised an ingenious plan to market its flagship soda. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. Management Is Not Fungible – UnVCs tend to invest in serial entrepreneur teams, not market spaces or ideas.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The service is for sites targeting foreign markets, who are determining how to better optimize and tune how they are engaging around the globe. We realized that's what needed in this industry, to empower those who own the content to allow them to support translation, and to globalize and expand their companies to global markets.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In the early 1970s, the Seven-Up Company devised an ingenious plan to market its flagship soda. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. Management Is Not Fungible – UnVCs tend to invest in serial entrepreneur teams, not market spaces or ideas.

Entrepreneur 140

Entrepreneur Cloud Computing Invest Funding 140

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred a candidate who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. It makes sense to assume that highly talented people will be in demand, and will want new challenges, so expectations of long-term job commitments are not realistic. Take chances on unconventional talent.

Oracle 94

Oracle Organization Examples Coach 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2016

Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred candidates who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. It makes sense to assume that highly talented people will be in demand, and will want new challenges, so expectations of long-term job commitments are not realistic. Take chances on unconventional talent.

Oracle 53

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Started at Oracle as one of its first employees. Early 30s: Got really serious about her career and started her company LaunchBit, an adtech platform for SaaS marketers.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , knows the answer and he delights in telling the story of how MySQL ate Oracle's lunch and dinner. It was the best marketing campaign ever. We spent 1.6M Euros on the lawsuit.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

In short, acknowledge they exist, be transparent about strengths & weaknesses and use your differences to talk about how you want to position yourself in the market. Marketing Differentiation – Salesforce.com is one of the most effective marketing organizations in the world because Marc Benioff is a genius at marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. They built in a feature called “auto scaling&# that monitored for traffic spikes and automatically provisioned new servers on demand and decommissioned them if your traffic surge subsided. Public stock market trades by senior executives of corporations.

Startup 343

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software. They were grateful for the extra money as their launch was overwhelmingly successful and they had to rapidly hire staff to support customer demand. If you’re doing well you’ll have demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. The units, asking $500,000 to $2 million, hit the market in about a month.

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