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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. When I tell someone I’m a CTO, I’m often met with a blank stare. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles.

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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

Selling into this market requires the traditional enterprise sales approach, comprised of a large ‘boots on the ground’ field sales team that works with key decision makers (e.g. CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. Webinars have a whole other cost in terms of time, effort, headaches, etc. EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle.

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