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Ecommerce Sales In Q4 Breaks Records

socalTECH

The firm, which measures retail e-commerce sales, said the sales were up 11 percent versus a year ago. The continued growth is a welcome change from the last two years, when e-commerce sales actually dipped into the negative numbers for several quarters, after consistent, double digit sales gains every quarter.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. I was hired to run their tennis division, and I built our the sales division for their tennis team. You see lots of them selling small business advertising, neighborhood magazines, and the like.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Make sure to tune in for all the live action.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Make sure to tune in for all the live action.

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Know When To Declare Defeat And Toss Out A Bad Idea – Do Not Be Afraid To Say, “That Baby Be Ugly!”

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For instance, engineers will typically evaluate ideas differently than people engaged in sales, who in turn will consider ideas from a different vantage point from those responsible for product development and marketing. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine rated What’s Going On #6 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. It was 2007. But there is nothing that would ever replace the rush of being on the top of the startup emotional curve. Your highs are super high.