Sat.Jun 01, 2013 - Fri.Jun 07, 2013

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Customers don't care about you

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Sorry to break this news to you, but customers don't really care about you. Even when they ask about you , it's really about them : "What problems can you solve for me?" "What experience do you have with companies like mine?" "What do you know about my business, my market, my product?" "How can you help me?" You may have a broad range of expertise. You might have solved problems for all kinds of different companies in all kinds of different industries.

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The Most Under-Appreciated Startup Team Member

Tom Tunguz

The reason most startups go out of business is they run out of money. The CEO bears the responsibility for raising money, managing those assets and growing the business into profitability and ultimate sustainability. But the CEO shouldn’t bear this load alone. To help defray that critical responsibility, the CEO ought to have a consigliere, an advisor who helps plan, allocate resources, and illuminate the trade-offs between decisions.

Startup 108
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UI/UX Improvement: Bulk editing of custom fields

CloseSaaS

Custom fields in Close are powerful & flexible ways to add additional information to your sales data.

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The Bewildered User at the Center of the Legal Firestorm

Tom Tunguz

Reading TechMeme and HackerNews this morning, you’ll find more stories about legal issues relating to technology than stories about innovation: the PRISM affair, the DoJ’s suit against Apple for anticompetitive ebook pricing, Samsung’s win of a sales injunction banning iPhones and iPads, Chinese hacking of US assets, patent trolling and reform and so on.

Scale 100
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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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The Dawn of the Voice-to-Text Era

Tom Tunguz

We all type quite a bit. I’ve never measured how many words each day I type but I imagine it’s probably a few thousand each week between my laptop and my mobile phone and across emails and blog posts. And no one can deny the toll this takes on our wrists. In the past week, I’ve been suffering from some carpal tunnel pain particularly as I’ve been coding more.

Mobile 100