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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. She got you to offer free storage and discounted training. 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.”

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

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We've been working with him, and he's taught us a lot about the technology we're working with, and expanding our development team. The biggest transition for us, was taking on a co-founder, our CTO, who has the really intensive tech background. We're able to really put our idea into action, through their skill set.