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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Cliff, remind me about your background? What do you think about using Browse My Stuff / a Topic Hub to reach influencers in the meeting organizer space?

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Other entry-level experiences for budding entrepreneurs included selling items marketed in comic book ads. The American Seed Company, as shown in the accompany ad, encouraged young people to sign a simple “contract” that read: “Please send me your Big Prize book and one order of 45 packs of American Seeds. I’ll sell them at 20?

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Interview with Eric Hovanec and Steve Reich, LeisureLink

socalTECH

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. Let's talk about the new round. Talk a bit about your background and how you guys ended up at LeisureLink? That was about three years ago.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

But this still leaves me with lots of questions about the interplay between these tools, so Id ask people who author a blog, use LinkedIn (or other social networking), and participate in discussion groups, how do you use these tools. . * Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. The Twitter pest that costs you hard earned money WTF I’m ranting about?

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Whether it is launching a website, developing a minimum viable product, making strategic acquisitions or building out your sales team the founder must have a firm understanding of what it is they want to accomplish, the value it will create and how long the milestone will take to accomplish. Is outside capital really required?