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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. An obvious example would be in sales. You’re also learning directly about the skills of your sales staff by observing them in action.

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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

SoCal CTO

Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. It felt like a bad time share presentation.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. We have some great mentors now. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. We have a licensing business with that.

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CurbStand: Looking To Create A Valet Parking Network

socalTECH

We just recently brought in a CFO, a CTO, and also brought our technology team in house, so we are positioned to move our product forward, and grow and hire sales people in all of these different cities. One of them is serving as an advisor, and the other will be joining our board.

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7 Startup Lessons from NBA Finals

Tech Zulu Event

Who is the sales person? If both the CEO and the CTO are needed to attend an important meeting out of town, who will fulfill their roles of running the company smoothly? Players are trained and disciplined to react accordingly and make quick decisions in a blink of an eye that would most benefit the team.

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Interview with Robin Richards, Internships.com

socalTECH

Those include how-to on resumes, aptitude tests, videos, coaching seminars, and more of that nature. If you have a good idea, a good marketplace with certain characteristics, every company needs technology, every company needs finance, sales, marketing, and operations--that's the hard part. READ MORE>>.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Dec 26, 2009).

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