Developing a Killer Customer Experience
With each technology cycle, there is a predictable “technology-first” focus among companies, both small and large, aiming to position their business in a very non-descript…
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August 14, 2017
Postscript: Selling to the Enterprise
Cloud has been a blessing and a curse for enterprise selling. The risk shift of managing infrastructure from the customer to the vendor can accelerate…
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May 23, 2017
Q&A: Joe Proto, CEO, Transactis – On Overcoming Early Adversity
While the consequential decisions leading up to the economic crisis of the late 2000s and early 2010s were made well before September 29, 2008, the…
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March 29, 2017
When Is a Unicorn Really Worth $1 Billion?
In an era of ambitious startup valuations, it’s important to remember how difficult it is to grow and sustain a viable ‘unicorn’ – a company…
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January 26, 2017
Commentary: Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices
Over the last 18 months, an alarming number of medical device companies’ challenges with data security have been exposed. In 2015, Hospira’s LifeCare PCA3 and…
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January 17, 2017
Is IoT the Next App Store?
This post originally appeared on CIOReview.com, January 11th, 2017. It is hard to think about the current wave of digital innovation and empowered end-users without…
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January 11, 2017
Tongue Tied: Speaking Candidly About Capital
I cringe when I read a headline that says a startup “pulled in”, “landed” or even “scooped ” new funding. Or better yet, when a…
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December 4, 2015
Quick Pitch: An Online Venture Fair
Safeguard Scientifics, along with Ascent Venture Partners, Edison Partners, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, Grotech Ventures and Osage Venture Partners are excited to host Quick Pitch: An Online Venture Fair next Friday, December…
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November 6, 2015
Cask: Accelerating the development and deployment of production Hadoop applications
Data volumes are multiplying at an astronomical rate, making Hadoop—the industry standard open source software framework for large-scale data applications—an exceptionally fast growing market. Cask…
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