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Transcriptions of top podcasts(podcastic.co)
1 points by cykho 10y ago|0 comments
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SugarCRM acquires Contastic for natural language-based predictive sales tools(techcrunch.com)
2 points by cykho 11y ago|0 comments
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by cykho 11y ago
Right on. It's the failure to build in the vacuum that is most upsetting to me. There is so much value in Twitter users' content that could be used in new and interesting ways. However, the company both fails to innovate on that
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by cykho 11y ago
This is great advice - the socratic method is really key. It also helps to drill into the concrete details (aka facts) rather than staying at a higher subjective level. I've also found it very helpful to write down the conclusion in a
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by cykho 11y ago
Big reason we have a broker is time savings - just have them handle it and get back to work. It took me under an hour to get set up with a broker. It took me longer than that to figure out what the Zenefits cost/benefit was.
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Content and Conversations= Conversions(thegrowthfactor.com)
1 points by cykho 11y ago|0 comments
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by cykho 11y ago
The main driver of Microsoft's net income growth over the last few years has been all enterprise software (Windows Server, SQL Server, Sharepoint). Their CRM (Dynamics) is the #2 player in the market. Acquiring Salesforce would enable
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by cykho 11y ago
Mountain View, CA Contastic (getContastic.com) is an IDG-Accel/Lightspeed funded company building a recommendation engine that uses ML/NLP to automate sales (customers include Splunk, Epic Games, and Proterra). Join us to pioneer
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by cykho 11y ago
An interesting outcome of the case discussion for this was that many king believed they needed to maintain control to be rich. This leads us to believe it's potentially a set of dependent variables rather than a choice between separat
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by cykho 12y ago
My advice has always been if you're not willing to commit 3 years full time to coding don't do it. It just takes that long to be useful on a team. Instead, focus on whatever area you want to excel at and leave the engineering to
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by cykho 12y ago
I have no idea why they don't just move the control buttons to the bottom of the screen. The real estate is great - they just need to break the paradigm of sticking the most importance tap targets at the unreachable top of the screen.
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by cykho 12y ago
1 - build an online portfolio of work (if you don't have one do personal/free projects to build it. 2 - go on elance/odesk to find some paying clients (pay is low, but easy to find). You can also use this to try different th
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by cykho 12y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Michael-Lewis/dp/0393244660 is a great high level overview on this whole issue (including brad katsuyama).
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by cykho 12y ago
Noone should sell to everyone :)
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by cykho 12y ago
The cashflow amazing. A recurring license with a large enterprise means thousands of per-seat fees rolling in on a consistent basis. And larger enterprises are less likely to churn since they are more stable businesses and take longer to
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by cykho 12y ago
Great idea - I just looked this up - NASDAQ has a nice list in CSV format along with market cap: http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/company-list.aspx
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by cykho 12y ago
I'd be wary to think they are converging. The enterprise sales cycle is getting shorter and more user driven (more folks can charge a per-user individual fee as opposed to site licenses). This makes the process more accessible than e
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by cykho 12y ago
I wonder what the all up cost of getting someone an H1B visa is currently? Is this an annoying bureaucratic hurtle or a real barrier to talent entering the US? My perception is that the cost is around $20k (lawyers/filing fees) + some
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by cykho 12y ago
A good lesson that all emails are potentially public :)
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by cykho 12y ago
I went through this program's 2013 batch. Working directly with the smart folks at Lightspeed accelerated our learning process. Weekly meetings with the partners forced us to make the hard decisions quickly and got us to launch 10x f
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by cykho 12y ago
This is a real wakeup call - raise bigger seed rounds to last until you're a breakout success.
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by cykho 12y ago
I wonder if this means more Harvard students are seeking careers as devs or that Harvard students in other disciplines are looking to add programming to their repertoire?
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How Close Deals at Your Next Conference For Engineers(blog.cykho.com)
1 points by cykho 12y ago|0 comments
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Perilous Pivots – A Startup Story(blog.hostgator.com)
1 points by cykho 12y ago|0 comments
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by cykho 12y ago
These are awesome tips! I like silence the best for focus (less cognitive load the better). These have been a godsend: http://www.amazon.com/3M-Peltor-H10A-Optime-Earmuff/dp/B0000... Basically just your basic no
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Tips on Pitching from General Catalyst, Cowboy Ventures, and SoftTechVC(blog.cykho.com)
1 points by cykho 12y ago|0 comments
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The First NLP Driven CRM – no typing required(demoflick.com)
3 points by cykho 12y ago|0 comments
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Cold Calling and Emailing off of CrunchBase (from Close.IO YC W11)(blog.cykho.com)
3 points by cykho 12y ago|0 comments
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Say goodbye to your productivity. This game is Flappy Bird meets Tron.(lokani.com)
1 points by cykho 12y ago|0 comments
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How To Sell – An infographic for the sales process(blog.getcontastic.com)
2 points by cykho 12y ago|0 comments

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