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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. I instantly hit it off with Greg because we was a fountain of knowledge. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more.

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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I sort of had that gene in my DNA, having started a couple of businesses earlier in my career, one in college to sell my lighting designs and sculptures, and one as a young product designer to sell myself as a consultant to Silicon Valley startups. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. I own an iPod Touch (not an iPhone – my house in Brentwood gets literally ZERO AT&T bars). We evangelized to customer about the problems of on premise software. - It’s a way to reach your customers. It was slow. It was hard to use.

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