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

InfoChachkie

. “Working in a startup… you will be paid less than market rate, but… I would advise you to take the two skills that nobody wants, which happen to be the two most valuable skills you can develop in your youth. Number one is sales. Life is sales. Business development is sales. Winning customers is sales.

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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

socalTECH

The firm's CEO is Brian McKelvey , who we caught up with recently to learn more about his background, the firm, and the market it hopes to serve. Also, more recently, I was with LiveNation and was building point-of-sales applications. Thanks for the interview. What's the idea behind Worlize? What's your background?

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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.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. 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.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Do you have sales productivity software? And then you need to market it.

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Interview with William Chow, Mobophiles

socalTECH

William Chow: The applications we are going to market with initially are enterprise applications. A site like the New York Times, which might 10-12 seconds to load because it has so many graphics and Javascript to pull down, our caching technology transparently accelerates that using the capability of your hard drive.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. Here’s a hack for you. Most lawyers that work with startups are willing to work on a deferred payment schedule.

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