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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. I had just watched a master of the consultative sale. Help them?!!

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody.

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