Below: Q&A with Petr Palas, CEO and Co-Founder of Kentico Software (based in The Czech Republic). Petr will be answering reader questions today ( Thu) here at Signal vs. Noise. If you have a question, leave it as a comment. This is part of our "Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud" series which profiles profitable companies that didn't take VC and have over $ 1 million in annual revenues.
What does your company do?
We help web developers …
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…Chief Revenue Officer will report to Jesse Robbins, the company's CEO .
Responsibilities:
Develop and implement a plan to create demand and achieve revenue growth. This may involve one or more potential streams of revenue.
Create, install, and manage a revenue generation process from demand creation to closed sales for each revenue stream.
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