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    2. Surviving Technical Due Diligence

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (May 20 2012)

      Surviving Technical Due Diligence ...laws. So, technical due diligence mostly consisted of reporting whether the startup used a MySQL or Oracle database and how many rows were in the database. Continuity is certainly a good metric but practica... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Joel Spolsky

    3. Hiring for a Position that Doesn't Exist Yet

      Explore SmartRecruiters (Mar 28 2012) Recruiting

      Hiring for a Position that Doesn't Exist Yet ...m lunch, right? Or – better yet – reschedule the interview for a time when half the office isn’t at Oracle’s OpenWorld. But what i You’ve whittled the resume stack down to the three best possible candidates... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   San Francisco   Croatia

    4. It’s a Big Step from Engineer to an Entrepreneur

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Feb 17 2012) Marketing

      It’s a Big Step from Engineer to an Entrepreneur ...y there are many examples of great companies led by engineers, including Microsoft with Bill Gates, Oracle with Larry Ellison, and Google with Larry Page. This is strong evidence that it is possible to make... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Larry Ellison   Microsoft

    5. Tips for Hiring Your First VP Sales at a Startup

      Explore SalesSchool by SalesCrunch (Feb 16 2012) Recruiting

      Tips for Hiring Your First VP Sales at a Startup ...f Sales Jay Larson, who became Head of Sales & Marketing at Mercury Interactive, awesome, came from Oracle, awesome. He said “Okay, we’re going to make the next call,” and I said “Jay what are you doing?” a... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   IBM   California

    6. Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball"

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Feb 2 2012)

      Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball" ... people that can actually do the job. That VP of Sales candidate that has 15 years of experience at Oracle? Likely not worth it for you. They'll look the part, but they're not guaranteed to be able to actua... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Apple   Dropbox

    7. How Not to Name a Startup: The Curse of the Camel Case

      Explore Xconomy (Jan 5 2012)

      How Not to Name a Startup: The Curse of the Camel Case ...ther strategy. And much faster. Consider the following companies: Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle. And more recently, Groupon, Twitter, Zynga. Or how about these biggies: Facebook, Salesforce, Qual... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Apple   Microsoft

    8. How to Survive Your First Year As An Entrepreneur

      Explore TechCrunch (Dec 29 2011)

      ... do at three in the morning and then put it on their website.  My original job was to do some Unix/ Oracle thing that I was totally unqualified for and didn’t know how to do. So I figured out a more fun ide... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   America   Oracle   Larry Page

    9. Why Hiring Seasoned Sales Reps May Not Work

      Explore bothsidesofthetable.com (Dec 22 2011) Recruiting

      Why Hiring Seasoned Sales Reps May Not Work ...big-name innovator in your field. So if you’re enterprise sales that might mean hiring people from Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce or whatever who have never been at an “unbranded” startup. The skills to be... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Mark Suster   Microsoft

    10. Tech Startups Need Non-Techies to Succeed

      Explore HBR Blog Network (Dec 2 2011)

      Tech Startups Need Non-Techies to Succeed ...n entire industry. Consider the software industry, where we have successful brands like Windows and Oracle. While these two firms have world-class intellectual properties, I think their true innovation is i... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Intel   Microsoft

    11. How do I get my first few customers?

      Explore A Smart Bear (Oct 31 2011) Marketing

      How do I get my first few customers? ...rtant, is his the best tool? If you have only six FAQ entries, should you buy his tool? If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   The New York Times   WordPress

    12. 16 Brilliant Insights From Steve Jobs Keynote Circa 1997

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Jul 1 2011) Marketing

      ...ings I told him was, “Look, if you took a poll in Silicon Valley of what company you’d like to run, Oracle would be at the top of many people’s lists. Second largest software company in the world, one of th... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Newton   Larry Ellison

    13. Launching And Scaling In A Down Economy – with Bill Loumpouridis

      Explore mixergy.com (May 25 2011)

      Launching And Scaling In A Down Economy – with Bill Loumpouridis ... you have direct sales, and you have indirect sales. I’ll use a simple example, even a company like Oracle. So Oracle, they sell directly to business, but they also have Oracle inside where they embed the database in other products. So for example, Salesforce.com, our biggest... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Palm   Oracle   Marc Benioff

    14. The CEO’s CEO

      Explore ben's blog (Apr 27 2011) Marketing

      ...e Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement. Typically, in an intensely competitive enterp... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   IBM   Bill Campbell

    15. Are The Trenches of Entrepreneurship Dug in War?

      Explore warandtheentrepreneur.com (Mar 24 2011)

      Are The Trenches of Entrepreneurship Dug in War? ...alapan launched and sold the pharmaceutical software company formerly Clarix, now Phase Forward, to Oracle. He is in the middle of launching a second enterprise. With engagements in Iraq, Afghanistan and no... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Morgan Stanley   Army

    16. Finding Product/Market Fit: Using Consulting to Understand Customer Needs

      Explore Blog of David Skok, Matrix Partners (Mar 21 2011) Marketing

      ...e or consultant built 3. Not a lot of traditional modern enterprise competition in the sector (e.g. Oracle, SAP, etc.) Cautionary note What John and his co-founders did is very different from something I ha... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   David Skok   SAP

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