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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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Turn Your Organization Inside Out. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. In the first 4 years of running BuildOnline we were an “Outside In&# organization. The Outside In organization had a one-way flow. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Startup CTO or Developer

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What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. What do we build in-house or outsource?

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. If you don’t have somebody inside your organization who is setting the technology direction then I’m convinced you’ll never head for greatness. They often aren’t great at planning development work.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Startup 3.0:

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Relsys International Acquired By Oracle

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Irvine-based Relsys International , a developer of drug safety and risk management software for the health care industry, has been acquired by software giant Oracle. Oracle said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Relsys, which will become part of its Health Sciences Global Business Unit. Relsys was founded in 1987.

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Why Focusing on Only One Buyer Will Lose You Sales

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We developed this at our first company and called it PUCCKA – the overall methodology is described here. This is a mistake because if you don’t meet a wide variety of people who may have a role in the decision you could be totally blind-sided by a parallel process happening in the buying organization of which you aren’t aware.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. It literally can put you out of business.