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Secrets of When and How to Talk to Customers at a Startup

Secrets of When and How to Talk to Customers at a Startup

By Bob Warfield on October 10, 2014

Jason Lemkin says forget building wireframe UI’s and start out interviewing 20 customers, because you just won’t understand your customers until you do.  Here’s the gist of why you need 20 interviews before you do anything else: And you have to do 20.  I know it’s hard to get to 20.  But it’s the right […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged bootstrapping, enterprise software, interview, J&Bshow, SaaS, Siebel Systems, startups, Steve Jobs, strategy, user interface, venture | 1 Response

Planning to Do a SaaS Startup?  Don’t Forget the 20 Interview Rule.

Planning to Do a SaaS Startup? Don’t Forget the 20 Interview Rule.

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 10, 2014

Recently I spent some time with two seemingly similar SaaS start-ups.  Both are at about $100k in MRR (congratulations!).  Both have happy, enthusiastic customers.  Both have really great products and are organically growing.  Both have great founder CEOs. But even though both are now at $1m ARR … one is just so much better positioned […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, interview, J&Bshow, SaaS, SaaStr, startups, Steve Jobs

AccelOps in Action at the Austin Radiological Association – Overview and use of AccelOps integrated data center and cloud service monitoring platform from an end user perspective

AccelOps in Action at the Austin Radiological Association – Overview and use of AccelOps integrated data center and cloud service monitoring platform from an end user perspective

By Michael Coté on November 18, 2010

I recently visited with Todd Thomas and Geoff Christy at the Austin Radiological Association to see their instance of AccelOps in action. Todd and Geoff explain how they came about to switch over to AccelOps in the first interview section, then shows us an extensive demo of how they’re using AccelOps. Seeing this kind of […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged AccelOps, austin, Austin Radiological Association, CMDB, demo, Geoff Christy, interview, IT Management, IT Management Podcast, monitoring, redmonk, RedMonkTV, Systems Management, Tag, Todd Thomas, transcripts

Salesforce.com co-founder: Collaboration and the social enterprise

Salesforce.com co-founder: Collaboration and the social enterprise

By Michael Krigsman on May 3, 2010

Salesforce.com’s Chatter platform offers a promising advance for collaboration in the enterprise. Watch an important video interview with the company’s co-founder.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged and SOA, CIO issues, Cultural issues, E-Commerce, Enterprise 2.0, interview, IT issues, PaaS, Parker Harris, SaaS, salesforce.com, Twitter, Video interview

Enterprise Irregulars: Behind the scenes with NetSuite CEO

Enterprise Irregulars: Behind the scenes with NetSuite CEO

By Michael Krigsman on April 23, 2010

The Enterprise Irregulars is an invitation only group comprised of top-tier enterprise analysts, observers, industry veterans, and executives. Listen to a podcast briefing with NetSuite’s CEO.

Posted in Business | Tagged and SOA, CIO issues, Cloud Computing, interview, IT issues, netsuite, PaaS, Podcast, SaaS, Zach Nelson | 1 Response

Enterprise IT: Inside an SAP customer

Enterprise IT: Inside an SAP customer

By Michael Krigsman on April 19, 2010

The global head of Mead Johnson’s PMO shares his thoughts on SAP, system integrators, SaaS, and much more, in an exciting podcast.

Posted in Business | Tagged and SOA, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CIO issues, Devil's Triangle, erp, interview, IT issues, Mead Johnson, Naked IT, PaaS, Podcast, project portfolio management, Project strategy, SaaS, sap, software as a service, supply chain, Vendor relationships

RightNow: Analyzing the 'Cloud Services Agreement'

RightNow: Analyzing the ‘Cloud Services Agreement’

By Michael Krigsman on March 15, 2010

Cloud-based CRM vendor, RightNow, recently released new service that are not revolutionary but do challenge other vendors to simplify pricing / licensing terms and conditions.

Posted in Business | Tagged and SOA, CIO issues, CRM, interview, IT extinction, PaaS, Research and statistics, SaaS, Vendor relationships, Video interview

Business intelligence success, ROI, and failure

Business intelligence success, ROI, and failure

By Michael Krigsman on February 2, 2010

Despite the growth of BI, achieving ROI remains a challenge; video interview with Michael Corcoran, Chief Marketing Officer of Information Builders.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged business intelligence, CIO issues, Data Warehousing, Decision Support Tools, implementation, Information Builders, interview, IT issues, Video interview | 2 Responses

Blogger relations at SAP

Blogger relations at SAP

By Michael Krigsman on January 5, 2010

Enterprise software vendors are an important part of the blogging ecosystem. Here’s how SAP is innovating in this area.

Posted in Business | Tagged CIO issues, interview, sap, Vendor relationships, Video interview

SOA adoption: The human face of governance

SOA adoption: The human face of governance

By Michael Krigsman on December 28, 2009

Human and organizational factors such as politics, information silos, and change management generally underlie IT success and failure.

Posted in Business | Tagged CIO issues, Cultural issues, Governance, interview, IT issues, Podcast, Project strategy, SaaS, PaaS, and SOA | 1 Response

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