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Growth Times » Entrepreneur’s Must-Have: a Masterplan and To-Do ListIn my experience helping entrepreneurs, the most important success driver of any business founder is the capacity to know their success drivers, and keep everything they do tied to those. So being able to keep one’s eyes on the prize and not get lost in the weeds is the top quality any good ...
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Semantics Incorporated: Discussing the Semantic Portals of Eqentia with the GangPaul Miller has published the Semantic Web Gang podcast we recorded in November , in which we first talk about Eqentia with its CEO (and also friend of mine) William Mougayar. Eqentia is a web application offering pre-made vertical portals leveraging an ontology-based search engine to ...
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Semantics Incorporated: Slow Adoption of Linked Data: Why?During the November issue of Semantic Web Gang podcast , we also talked about DBpedia , which led me to share new thoughts about Linked Data . And more specifically, two things: my growing concerns that adoption of Linked Data is going slower than expected (an observation I will test ...
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Growth Times » Why have a product manager and not a sales process manager?Funneling prospects and clients is nothing new. But the web has taken it to a whole new level, making the entire process cheaper and more precise. And with the bar being constantly raised, a focus on the “whole sales process” is increasingly decisive: established companies must further invest in ...
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Develop your sales process as you would develop a product « The RIC BlogThe sales process needs as much attention as your product – and sometimes more. Think of the sales process really as creating a product around the product. You may have a product development team, but do you have a sales process development function in your company?
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Semantics Incorporated: Does the Adoption Threshold of RDF Limit the Grassroot Potential of the Semantic Web?Does the Adoption Threshold of RDF Limit the Grassroot Potential of the Semantic Web? In the October of the Semantic Web Gang podcast , Tom Tague of OpenCalais , Benjamin ...
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Growth Times » Venture Capital: From the Moon Back to the MeanI argued in a recent post that in parallel to the “moonshot” approach Josh rightly describes as the norm for VCs, there must be a model that focuses on extracting revenues from a portfolio of tech companies with lesser risk. Overall, it’s pretty clear to me that what we call VC companies ...
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Growth Times » How does Canada Compete with the U.S. for Immigrant Tech Entrepreneurs?A great post today by Suzanne Dingwall Williams of Venture Law Associates LLP in Toronto , regarding the recent considerations by the U.S. to increase the number of H1B visas for skilled foreign workers, apparently thanks to a push by venture capitalists. The stats she quotes are startling: ...
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Growth Times » Should You Focus on Revenue or on Raising Money? (and the Case for a VC-Management Consultant Hybrid)Varun Mathur , the Techvibes Community Manager, who I just learnt is based in Toronto (I look forward to meeting you, Varun), made an excellent point yesterday in his Techvibes post on What Separates 37signals And Twitter ? For all the talk about “getting to revenue” as fast as possible, ...
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Semantics Incorporated: Twine Confirms Traffic Drop on ReadWriteWeb, but Spins it Out of ControlReadWriteWeb just wrote about my last post and relayed Twine's response, which in a nutshell is that they saw a 20-25% traffic drop but that it doesn't matter because they are all focused on version 2.0 which will free their traffic acquisition model from its dependence on Google rankings.Couple ...
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