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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

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The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. Many young startups are being advised not to have a professional services business and in my opinion this is a big mistake.

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

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NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. A lot of software startups have shied away from serving public institutions, despite a big market, due to concerns about how slow they adopt things. We saw that opportunity, and executed.

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How ContractSafe Wants To Help You Get Your Legal Docs In Order, With Ken Button

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To address that disaster, Ken Button and Randy Bishop�two veterans of the startup industry�created ContractSafe (www.contractsafe.com), a new online service aimed at helping companies to tame that mess and manage and store their contracts in the cloud. We have been around software for a long time. What is ContractSafe?

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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

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It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. First, for our readers who aren't familiar with your software, can you explain what it does?

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Interview with Idris Manley, NativeTung

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We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. NativeTung is a cloud-based platform, which includes some software which runs on the web site, which ensures synchronization of the translation at all times. Who would be the typical customer for this service?

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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In no expert in Seattle but when I look around I see: enterprise software (Microsoft), the market leader in cloud services (Amazon AWS), games (Xbox), some of the most innovative retailers in the country (CostCo, Starbucks, REI) and what is left of Boeing (HQ moved to Chicago). It’s great to see an initiative like Seattle 2.0

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A Chat With Jamie Montgomery On How LA's Tech Ecosystem Has Grown

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In the last couple ofyears, we've seen more enterprise technology and software locally here, and software is starting to grow up. The LIDAR, the sensors, the software, what's been developed for and by the aerospace industry, JPL, and local universities. There are four kinds of buyers in M&A. They are very acquisitive.