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Blake Dong

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Co-Founder and CEO, InnerTribe

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Software entrepreneur and engineer. After 15 years in software design and consulting, I founded InnerTribe to create social business software. I am a Microsoft Certified Solution Architect and was previously Sr. Director of Enterprise Collaboration at Avanade.

InnerTribe is a ...

Software entrepreneur and engineer. After 15 years in software design and consulting, I founded InnerTribe to create social business software. I am a Microsoft Certified Solution Architect and was previously Sr. Director of Enterprise Collaboration at Avanade.

InnerTribe is a powerful social intranet for SharePoint, with a focus on giving medium and large companies a community powered super-brain so experts can help each other get work done, faster.

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July 12, 2011

Blake Dong and 1 other person answered this question

Startup Funding: what are best practices to getting an Angel investor's attention?

Wow, this is like the title of a book. I don't think this text box is big enough, to keep this short, my favorite resources:
1. List your startup on AngelList (http://angel.co), and read their blog which is full of tips from how to get the ... more

Angel Financing

July 12, 2011

Blake Dong and 1 other person answered this question

What is focus.com's revenue model?

Thanks Scott for the insight. Great service to the SMB community for sure, keep up the great work! more

July 12, 2011

Blake Dong and 9 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Modern B2B Marketing Strategies [7/12 @ 1 pm]

When should a company NOT invest in marketing automation software?

Did a marketing automation software post this answer?
Just kidding, the question is when NOT to use automation software, so your point is NEVER? more

B2B Marketing Week

Content Marketing

July 8, 2011

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How do businesses get employees involved in generating leads?

Employee Engagement

Lead Generation

July 8, 2011

Blake Dong and 1 other person answered this question

Social B2B communities: Is it ever better to NOT have a face behind the name?

For globally huge brands, say Apple or Nike, I think it is very difficult to be totally personal because of the size of their marketing team. The risk is that when the person leaves the firm, do you really want the followers to stop receiving ... more

Account Management

Community Management

July 8, 2011

Blake Dong and 2 other people answered this question

Why is Microsoft in the smartphone OS business?

MS has always been a platform provider, so their core competency and chief barrier to entry has always been the entire developer and application eco-system. Once you own the platform, the monopoly allows them to have an unfair competitive advantage the key application space such ... more

Information Technology

July 8, 2011

Blake Dong and 1 other person answered this question at this roundtable

Applications and Cloud Computing: Trends, Issues, Strategies [6/29 @ 1 pm]

What's your experience with building "composite" applications for the cloud? Is it cost effective?

Building composite applications has long been the holy grille of software development. The idea of being able to rapidly create new applications by stitching together pre-built, fully tested, production ready services or widgets is highly enticing. And in today's highly connected and social world, building ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

July 7, 2011

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July 7, 2011

Blake Dong recommends this answer by Stefanie Mainwaring

Why is the proportion of customers so low at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston?

I agree with Blake and Andrew. Today, it is generally more efficient and effective for customers and prospects go online to find out about latest product offerings and build (initial) personal contacts to vendors.
Seems that conferences like E2.0 have become more of a place ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

July 7, 2011

Blake Dong and 2 other people answered this question

Is there a compelling reason that PaaS hasn't taken off? What will it take for developers to adopt?

Really well said JP.
In our own cloud development we had to overcome the lock-in issue. We started out as a 100% Microsoft Azure design but selected an open source search engine running on the Java stack. We overcome this by running the search engine ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

July 6, 2011

Blake Dong and 27 other people answered this question

If you were building a company would you prefer 1 super star or 100 really good employees?

Question is flawed, the answer is it depends on what type of company you're trying to build. If you're trying to create the next Chipotle or Accenture, yo probably need to figure out how to hire 100 really good employees. But if you've trying to ... more

Human Resources

July 6, 2011

Blake Dong and 6 other people answered this question

What skill set is hardest for a start up to recruit for?

For a software startup, I found the hardest skill to recruit for is the inventor, the type of person that can look at a problem holistically, device a solution, and actually get hands on and prototype the solution. The key attributes are tenancity, creativity, and ... more

Human Resources

July 6, 2011

Blake Dong answered this question

How much time should you spend out of your work day "Social Networking" vs making calls?

By social networking do you mean both online and offline forms of social networking?
I don't know if there is a hard and fast rule, since I haven't seen any research report that measures the ROI on twittering. Personally I do most of my social networking ... more

July 6, 2011

Blake Dong asked a question at this roundtable

SharePoint in the Cloud: Evaluating Impact, Pros and Cons [7/21 @ 11 am]

Will Office 365 marketplace become an App Store?

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

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