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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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I opened up an office for them, doing early stage selling, then I built a client services department for HotJobs, and then after Yahoo acquired them, I moved back into sales, in Sales Management, and I helped manage and rebuild a team in San Francisco. That was four years ago. What's the new book about?

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Or at least diversify the future fortunes of their shareholders in the way that Yahoo! It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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The eCommerce Game Goes to Austin

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Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that three of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub. Addison, Texas is home of The open source eCommerce framework Broadleaf.

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How ScoreStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups. And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals. Derrick Oien: I think the toughest part is figuring out the righ engagement framework.

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How SportStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

socalTECH

It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups. And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals. Derrick Oien: I think the toughest part is figuring out the righ engagement framework.

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