Tien-Anh Nguyen
Chief Business Officer at UserTesting
Startup Strategy
Successful Exit Strategies - Lessons from Zappos.com
Zappos successful company exit strategy depended on commitment to values, prudent planning and patience.   A friend forwarded me Tony...
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Startup Strategy
How expansion stage software companies can scale their websites successfully
Since we specialize in providing venture capital financing for high growth software or technology enabled companies, our portfolio companies typically...
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Startup Strategy
How to Solve the Business Software User Interface Quandary
Business (here I mean by enterprise) software is notorious for being hard to implement and difficult to use. This is a...
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Marketing
New Frontiers in Search Marketing
Search Marketing (both paid and organic) is very big part of the expansion stage software companies' marketing arsenal. In fact,...
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Startup Strategy
Does the SaaS sales and marketing economics model work?
While searching for some benchmarks data on SaaS companies' sales and marketing spend, I found a great analysis by Bob...
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Finance & Operations
VMForce: A new lease of life for Enterprise Java?
Last week, VMWare and Salesforce.com unveiled their much anticipated joint venture: VMforce.com. In a nutshell, VMforce is an IaaS/PaaS (Infrastructure as a...
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Startup Strategy
Scaling lessons from Vietnam
I was about to write more about data sources, but will have to defer to the next week to highlight...
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Startup Strategy
Data Quality Matters
This week I want to single out a great blog that I believe should be daily reading for expansion stage...
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Market Research
You've Got Your Segments, What About Personas?
If you have followed my posts or my colleagues' blog entries, you would know that we are very big on...
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