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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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Hack4LA Looks To Help Local Communities, Government

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This Hackathon--sponsored by such companies as Google, Scopely, ESRI, Factual, LA Makerspace, AT&T and others--is being held in Boyle Heights on June 1st and 2nd. Coaches and mentors from companies like Topspin Media, Citysearch, Beachbody, Lootsie, Datapop, and Carbon also are involved. READ MORE>>.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

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After that a meme developed amongst many startups (and the advisors that coached them) that, “TechCrunch didn’t matter. Remember that while the tech blogs exist to report companies at their infancy, the broader journals do not. You should focused on getting coverage where your users are.” They want validation.

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Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need a COO

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They will often run all of the daily reports into them covering off for finance, sales, marketing, biz dev & HR. It’s pretty tough to convince me in a company of less than 50 people that the CEO can’t handle 6-8 direct reports to manage the various areas of the business. But ask yourself, what does a COO actually do?

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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Report Card. Sam was also a member of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and inaugural new media team and previously worked for Google, Credit Suisse, The Colbert Report, and Senators John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. There is a robust eco system, great leaders and the ability to build companies with enormous exits.

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To My Wife, On Mother’s Day

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We observe them in their daily lives and interactions with their teachers, coaches and friends and we look on with pride and the wonderful little human beings they have become. So today should of course by Wife Appreciation Day as much as Mother’s Day. Our two young boys are now at about the halfway point in their childhoods.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises.

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