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HyreCar Names New Board Member

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According to HyreCar, it has appointed Jay Vijayan, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Tesla, and current CEO of Tekion, to its board. Tekion is a startup developing business applications in the automotive retail market. Vijayan previously also served at VMware and Oracle, and sits on the board of Nic Inc.

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Who Should you Hire at a Startup?

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Everyone in the outside world is talking about how great you are but internally you know that your sales aren’t ramping, your product isn’t shipping on time, you have doubts about the quality of your code, you’re not convinced you’re doing a good job on marketing – whatever. Your solution? My advice: don’t.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales.

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