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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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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

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Your IT Reviewer. This is the “deal prevention” team in many big corporations. They’ve had years of business-unit managers buying software solutions they didn’t need and that eventually become shelfware. Procurement (or Biz Dev Team or M&A Department). Biv Dev teams?

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. I never built Google.

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