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What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

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The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur? I emailed him back with my bona fides and made the case again.

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Puking On The Emotional Startup Rollercoaster

InfoChachkie

Approximately a year later, the company’s revenues had grown significantly and there were no chest bumps after we finalized a multiple six-figure sale to Oracle. After you rang the Bell, you then sent an email to the entire company explaining the accomplishment you were celebrating. after closing a $10,000 deal.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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How Roambi Is Making Mobile Work For The Enterprise, with Quinton Alsbury

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That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com. Before, they had BlackBerries and smartphones, but you couldn't do much beyond email. They're supporting employees with Android phones, with company email, directories, and that sort of thing.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

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We decided to shake things up and take a risk at the biggest data management summit, attended by multi-billion dollar corporations, including IBM, Oracle and Informatica. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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The Danger of Crocodile Sales

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They don’t handle Twitter feedback, emails or IM. So you would say (in the Customer Support example), “What we find is that many of our clients have existing ‘trouble ticketing’ systems. But many of these aren’t integrated with the way that their customers want to communicate with them in 2010.

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Bringing The Power Of Mobile To The Construction Industry, With TRUCKAST

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Todd Davis: Today, communications between manufacturing, suppliers, contractors, and end users is disjointed, lacks context, and requires lots of telephone calls, messages, and emails. Todd Davis: I''m a veteran of Oracle, and had been CEO of an equipment finance company for the construction industry globally.

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