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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. It might tell you that you need better sales training or to hone your key selling messages. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres.

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

Tech Zulu Event

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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Goals Accountability and Social Support for Big Impact

SoCal CTO

It’s one thing when you provide a blank space to write your goals when you are in a classroom and there’s a teacher who can help you. There’s a bit of training required to cover things like roles, alignment, how things work. I’ve seen that in courses and in design specs many times, and it’s a HORRIBLE IDEA.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

Over 12 months, until we were generating enough dollars of cash flow, we basically used that credit to write ourselves convenience checks, so we could pay our rent, pay for materials, and for those sort of things. We get the right people in, and trained very quickly, and then have them out there working. Jake got a similar amount.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. If they don’t have a call center already with trained sales reps answering calls, they’re probably not a good fit.”.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

Both Sides of the Table

I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. But my aspiration in college was “to get a good job.&# In 1990 that’s what I was trained to want to do – impress my parents and their friends. Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. I cleared hundreds.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.