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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform. What did he know?

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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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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

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Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development? Avoid them.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.

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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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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

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They get to meet the team, we do some due diligence, and have them talk to functional experts. After the sale, Rory [Editor's note: Rory Moore] asked me if I wanted to take this to the next level. How to do fundraising, how to pitch a deal, how to think about managing your product, or managing your development team.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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