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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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Coloft Hackfest And Your Chance At $4K In Cash! All Thanks to BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Enterprise Software sucks, and if you’re an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Early designer of Paypal. Come by yourself and team up or bring your engineering/product design friends. Santa Monica, CA 90401.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. The company was called Red Beacon. Nice sweep!

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, million Raised. and Schlumberger.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

Anyone who has been in sales, business development, or just works a lot with others is familiar with contact management software--tracking who you have been talking to, when, notes, and more for sales teams. CRM systems are designed as management tools, to help people keep a finger on business, and hands on the neck of a salesperson.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

Both Sides of the Table

. “Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Both Sides of the Table

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. To watch a young company win 1,000+ seat deals at Global 100 companies at this stage of development has been simply stunning. Think about Snapchat.

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