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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Sales – Many publishers, including Grit, encouraged newspaper boys to create new routes and expand existing ones by aggressively selling subscriptions to non-subscribers. This pay-per-newspaper formula directly rewarded the children’s sales efforts and sparked a life-long entrepreneurial fire in generations of newspaper boys.

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Interview with Eric Hovanec and Steve Reich, LeisureLink

socalTECH

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. Eric Hovanec: Web developers, operations folks, and we have openings in sales and account management.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Along the way, I co-authored three books on one-to-one marketing ( [link] ) to help marketers learn how to built and nature relationships with their customers.

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Whether it is launching a website, developing a minimum viable product, making strategic acquisitions or building out your sales team the founder must have a firm understanding of what it is they want to accomplish, the value it will create and how long the milestone will take to accomplish. Can you afford the delay?

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Bootstrapping development, team management. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Ditch the Book: Running a Business YOUR Way. Chris Henry, Behance.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: "Keep it Simple" - My Golden Rule

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Whether it be product development, marketing, sales, negotiating or raising capital, I find myself trying harder to not get bogged down with unnecessary details. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. We invested the first $1 million to develop version 1.0 of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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