article thumbnail

A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

Chris Tragos: The tree founders of Jetpack, myself, Kevin Woolery, and Marc Brown were all working on the publisher side at Spin Media (Editor's note: previously Buzznet) I was running sales, development, and operations, and looking at all these RFPs that came in. They wanted something custom, to close the deal.

Buzznet 100
article thumbnail

A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Several junior sales associates to handle online customer acquisition and orientation; and, 3. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software. Development languages varied from team to team.

article thumbnail

Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

Number one is sales. Life is sales. Business development is sales. Winning customers is sales. Getting press is sales. ” In addition to sales, Mark advocates that emerging entrepreneurs gain some experience coding. .” Learn HTML. Learn JavaScript. Raising money. Hiring employees.