Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. Many may simply hit the wall. Or a quick flip. That is conformity. Same with VCs.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. Yammer was launched on stage at TechCrunch 50 on September 8, 2008 and won Best in Show.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. Vic Caretti: When I started this in 2008, I didn't even look at the business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Then funds are released to the seller, and Recycled Bride takes a 9% commission on each sale. What is Recycled Bride?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Almost 40% of small businesses that sell on Facebook say it is their sole sales channel. United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

In 2008, we built applications for musicians Travis Barker and DJ-AM, which provided a mixtape in exchange for a tweet. We're hiring senior developers, and we're also focusing on sales operations as well. He had been at Interscope, working with artists, and saw that people online constantly wanted new content from those artists.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

By 2008, FanLib was sold to Disney , which shut the site down soon after. This is different from how sales work in the existing art world. Another appeal of NFTs for artists is that every time an NFT is sold, the original creator still gets a cut.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Respondents cited a greater focus on cost cutting and efficiency as the number two step to achieving growth in 2013, only slightly behind increasing sales. While a nice improvement over the last several reports, the Index still remains on par with the 2008 average and below earlier troughs. points in February, to 90.8.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

There are too many to mention but I’ve noticed them all on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and people who have emailed or texted me. I asked him what motivated him and he told me, “I started it in 2008 as a project with my daughter helping canvass for Obama. Hunter Walk, Brad Feld, Chris Sacca and Kara Swisher are just a few.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Almost 40% of small businesses that sell on Facebook say it is their sole sales channel. United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. The world’s best brains are on sale. Immigration and multiculturalism were always top of mind in my household. Let’s buy more!&#.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you. I really think MyShape has a great concept. in Computer Science.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. But now I’m nearly 42.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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The Quigley Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Riverbed, Aruba Networks, Acme Packet, F5 and Isilon and were all trading at multiples of 5 to 15 times sales. With fears of recession and certain high IT spending verticals, like financial services and retail being hard hit, growth in enterprise IT spending in 2008 is now in doubt. More on that topic in my next blog post.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. Credit cards = less friction = more purchases = cha ching. I create videos.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. This blog is to address these questions. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! It turned out to be a catapult for the company, and sales have been booming since then.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Within weeks, we shortened our sales cycle. ► October (1) New Video!

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. » More.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market.

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