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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Chief Information Officer. Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Chief Information Officer. Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days.

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Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Chief Information Officer. Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? This post is an accusation.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Alltop is a great source of information for both Paper.li Develop your business plan. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. How to Make Paper.li

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

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