Happy Wednesday morning, everyone! Quick reminder: you can reach out to me any time about anything at connie@strictlyvc.com or on Twitter: I’m here and here. —– Top News in the A.M. Google is announcing its first-quarter earnings today. Here is RBC analyst Mark Mahaney’s quarterly cheat sheet, via Re/code. Alibaba is filing for its U.S. IPO next week, sources tell Reuters. —– For […]
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For Beckon CEO Jenny Zeszut, It Pays to Be Nice
Jenny Zeszut knows what it’s like when things don’t go as planned. Today, Zeszut is the CEO of Beckon, a two-and-a-half-year-old San Francisco-based marketing analytics software company that helps customers like Converse, Nokia, and BSkyb transform messy data inputs into useful insights about their marketing efforts. But Zeszut’s future didn’t always look so rosy. Back in […]