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Where to fish to land a Unicorn (in B2B SaaS)
Where to fish to land a Unicorn (in B2B SaaS)
By Oji Udezue
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Younger team members need help with remote work (WFH)
Younger team members need help with remote work (WFH)
By Oji Udezue
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Look what just arrived in the mail—Quitch is officially NASBA certified! 🎉✨ This certification marks the achievement of our team's dedication to…
Look what just arrived in the mail—Quitch is officially NASBA certified! 🎉✨ This certification marks the achievement of our team's dedication to…
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We had the opportunity to host a mindblowing session on #productledgrowth with a product legend! Oji Udezue It was everything we hoped it would be…
We had the opportunity to host a mindblowing session on #productledgrowth with a product legend! Oji Udezue It was everything we hoped it would be…
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Experience
Education
Volunteer Experience
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Startup Mentor
Techstars
- Present 7 years 11 months
Science and Technology
I mentor startups on product strategy, product skills, marketing and fundraising. My purpose is to help them increase the odds of great outcomes for their company and life's work.
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Techstars Chapter Board (Austin)
Techstars
- Present 5 years 10 months
Science and Technology
Working to make the Techstars chapter in Austin more vibrant and dynamic
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Mentor Advisory Board
Techstars
- Present 5 years 10 months
Science and Technology
Working to help engage the global Techstars mentor network to do amazing things
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Mentor and Adviser
DivInc
- Present 18 years 1 month
Science and Technology
I mentor startups lead by women and people of color; on product strategy, product skills, marketing and fundraising. My purpose is to help them increase the odds of great outcomes for their company and life's work.
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Pangea Management and Technology consultant
Columbia Business School
- Present 13 years 7 months
Economic Empowerment
Emerging markets mobile technology consulting with Clinton Global Initiatives supported non-profit.
Consulted on an SMS social network for rural women entrepreneurs in Palestine (Israeli occupied territories):
Gathered requirements in person using customer roundtables in rural Nablus; built relationship with telecommunication partners and executives in Ramallah and Tel Aviv to access their capacity and capabilities in relation to project and then delivered system plan, marketing plan and…Emerging markets mobile technology consulting with Clinton Global Initiatives supported non-profit.
Consulted on an SMS social network for rural women entrepreneurs in Palestine (Israeli occupied territories):
Gathered requirements in person using customer roundtables in rural Nablus; built relationship with telecommunication partners and executives in Ramallah and Tel Aviv to access their capacity and capabilities in relation to project and then delivered system plan, marketing plan and validation methodologies to customer.
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XBOX business strategy
Microsoft
- Present 13 years
Using several proven frameworks, analyzed and scored the Microsoft Xbox business strategy.
Based on this and comprehensive competitive analysis and research, delivered a multi-year business strategy plan that optimized for increased innovation, improved market power & strategic positioning and increased profits.
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Member, Board Of Directors
Quitch
- Present 6 years
Education
Energetic member of the board, that's helping the founder and team of Quitch to build a very successful and valuable company.
Patents
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Collecting And Presenting Temporal-Based Action Information
Issued US 8037046
Embedding application aware activity and time based snapshotting into OSes and applications so that any application in the OS can have native rewind and timeline activity based information capability
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Design patent: User interface for a display screen
Filed US 330155
Novel user interface for customer reconfiguration of a multimedia display of the same content
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Techniques to share media files through messaging
Filed US 329311
Simultaneously using a web services and message channel (email, IM, etc) to send rich multimedia messages in order not to clog the messaging channel. Synchronizing the messaging and webservices channels appropriately
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Obtaining content and adding to a document
Filed US 324406
Using web services to identify information relevant to a document or file and automatically embedding it to a document or allowing a customer to direct the process based on personal preferences
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Seamless conversion of ordinary email data into calendar data
Filed US 325039
Finding and extracting messages with time or event related information in email and automatically creating calendar events for the customer
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Automatically Displaying Keywords And Other Supplemental Information
US 7664740
System for optimizing and selecting text based ads and well as relevant user profile information based on communication messages
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Locally Editing A Remotely Stored Image
US 331938.01
Efficient editing of images stored in a back end server in a browser; by recording any image editing tasks done by a consumer and sending the recorded tasks to be executed on the back end periodically.
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Protected Environments For Protecting Users Against Undesirable Activities
US 8028335
User interface for warning and protecting customers of email and browser apps from malware. Used in Outlook (all versions), Internet Explorer (and most browsers) and Windows Live Mail. Allows customer to look at a bad messages in email (scroll, look at headers, etc) without running the risk of being infected
Courses
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Advanced Entrepreneurship
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Corporate Finance and Capital Markets
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Early stage finance
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Innovation and Enterpreneurship
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International Business and Global Strategy
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Mergers and Acquisitions
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Startup Customer development
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Strategy in technology,media and telecommunications industry
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