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NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You hire great people. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. Most companies that are scaling have CFOs, heads of HR or talent.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. So he would allocate say – 20% to sales, 15% to marketing, 20% to eng priorities, 10% to customer support, 10% to ops, 20% to ‘platinum customers’ and maybe 5% directly to me as the CEO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. “They’re probably a little ahead of their time,&# she said.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

We caught up with CEO Serge Gojkovich to learn more about what the company is up to, and to hear more about the company''s acquisition of Curby this week. So how did this acquisition come about? What is Curbstand up to right now? Serge Gojkovich: I came aboard in April of this last year, and we did a $3M raise shortly thereafter.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. We’re always hiring great people.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. It turned out to be a catapult for the company, and sales have been booming since then. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We've also hired another VP of Sales, brought on a new CTO, who started ZigBee, Matt Perkins, and we are going to get some headcount growth--though we're planning to keep that under 50. It's a great time for that, because there's lots of talent out there.

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