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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

The short story is that he received 400+ responses and goes through how he categorized/vetted the responses: 300 Didn’t Fit – Outside expertise/interest, pushing for immediate funding assistance, too many ideas (not focused), looking for sales agents. see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

Both Sides of the Table

They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. You can certainly get coaching from your VC on how to play the negotiations since they do it more often than you do. We’re both principals in a sale. You name it.

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

These efforts proved to be a major distraction from our main objective, namely sales and service of our high tech products. In practice that meant that we could once again focus on running our sales and service activities. The new regulations now permitted so-called ‘facilitating payments to petty bureaucrats’.

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7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. That ability to tackle any challenge personally, and get it done, serves early entrepreneurs well. It’s a big change.

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Sensitive Payments in the International Arena

Startup Professionals Musings

These efforts proved to be a major distraction from our main objective, namely sales and service of our high tech products. In practice that meant that we could once again focus on running our sales and service activities. The new regulations now permitted so-called ‘facilitating payments to petty bureaucrats’.