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The One Best, “Secret” Hack to Getting Venture Funding
I am fairly confident there are at least 10,000 Medium posts, 20,000 WordPress articles, and over well over 1,000,000 Tweets on How to Get Funded. It bores me personally, but I know it’s an important topic. Raising money for many CEOs is one of the their top 5 priorities. Without venture capital, I’d be nowhere. […]
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Artificial intelligence: McKinsey talks workforce, training, and AI ethics
As I talk with the many extraordinary guests on CXOTalk, an interview discussion forum that brings together the most innovative thinkers in the world, three key business aspects of artificial intelligence have emerged. First, AI is a vague umbrella concept that ties together data and a set of technologies, such as pattern recognition and other […]
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iPhone X and Note 8 compared: The ultimate guide for business users
There’s a battle raging out there between the Apple iPhone X and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, with strong opinions on both sides. As a proud owner of both phones, I want to share my experience and declare a definitive winner. Also read: iPhone X vs Galaxy Note 8: Which phone has better business specs? […]
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Why We Must Have Zero Tolerance for Sexual Misconduct in Venture Capital
Time Magazine published its “person of the year” edition and honored “the silence breakers” for speaking up and forcing our society to confront its position towards men in power exploiting their power for sexual gain. Real change is clearly needed. These brave women who have taken on personal risks and faced doubters to change the […]
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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?
Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observer in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the […]
Oracle and cloud: Success demands a customer-centric culture
Because Oracle is one of the most important players in enterprise software, I asked three top industry analysts to join me on Episode 261 of the CXOTalk series of conversations with innovators. Read on to learn how these analysts view Oracle, its position in the market, and its relationship to customers. Oracle is a 40-year […]
10 Amazing Sessions on Bootstrapped Startups at SaaStr Annual 2018
One request from last year’s SaaStr Annual was to add even more content for bootstrapped (vs venture funded) startups. We have! We’d like to think 100% of SaaStr content and speakers applies to bootstrapped startups just as well as any other type — but there are differences. So a few sessions to highlight: Ryan Smith, […]
Should I Sell for $50m … Or Push On And Try to Build a Unicorn?
BusinessInsider had a great story this week on Datto’s $1b exit to Vista Private Equity (more on the new role of PE in SaaS here). So much of it resonated with me, especially the story of the CEO’s 10 year journey, and turning down a $100m offer to sell. A decent offer to buy your […]
Data science: Feeding the all-seeing beast
Pervasive data science is becoming a core enabler of business innovation and competition. Given this importance, it’s worth examining the context of data science to consider its trajectory and future value. In my view, primary challenges around data science for business leaders comes from three sources: Business people do not always understand the power and […]
One Small Change I Made That Improved My Daily Mental State
We all have a pretty good idea about things that drag down our productivity or suck up time that would be better spent on more fulfilling activities. Two years ago I made a commitment to stop bringing my mobile phone into my bedroom and with like a 95% compliance rate this made a big improvement. […]
Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.
I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. Herb is a Puerto-Rican American media executive who was previously the President of […]
Want to Really Understand What all the Hype of Cryptocurrency is About?
If you read the headlines you may well think cryptocurrencies are a either a radically new way of paying that is our savior from ossified, corrupt governments or on the other side that they are speculative Ponzi schemes. The reality of course is that cryptocurrencies can be both and can be liberating and corrupting at […]
When to Stop Doing It All Yourself
Perhaps the biggest difference between most first-time founders and most second-time founders is how long they try to do it all themselves. This isn’t a criticism first time you usually sort of have to. You have less capital to hire a team, and less experience building teams. But then after that there are at least […]
SaaStr Tower unveiled!! The Annual has officially been upgraded!
We’ve already announced our first 70 speakers, and now we’re excited to share the biggest SaaStr Annual announcement of the year… we’ve upgraded the event venue for 2018! With ticket sales tracking at over 1.6x our 2017 numbers, our attendees are going to need a bigger and better experience than anything we’ve ever offered. SaaStr […]
Business
- IT heroes: Use customer service to build business relationships
- What Do Boards Actually Do?
- Details of Upfront Ventures New $400 Million Fund
- What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup?
- Should Startups Care About Profitability?
- The Two Things to Do. When You Don’t Know What to Do.
- One Tough (But Rewarding) Job: Being the First Sales Rep at a SaaS Startup
- Jyoti Bansal and The AppDynamics Story: From Idea to $3.7B (Video + Transcript)
- Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising
- How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding
Technology
- Equifax : Disturbing Developments
- AI on the high seas: Royal Caribbean sets a course for “frictionless and immersive” vacations
- Time to Drop LastPass? The Most Irresponsible, Idiotic Post Ever!
- Artificial intelligence and privacy engineering: Why it matters NOW
- One Simple Rule on When to Build a “Custom” Feature
- Augmented reality: Field service proof points in the enterprise
- CIO Report: Cloud first in financial services
- McKinsey: AI, jobs, and workforce automation
- Oracle in the cloud: The analyst conversation
- Why Computer Vision Tracking the Flow of People Will be a Huge Market
