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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition. I had long ago ceded the knowledge and responsibility for making the detailed technical recommendations about platforms, databases, hosting solutions, etc.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. Immediately after the acquisition we held meetings with all of the integrated CMS vendors and highlighted to them which bits we were going to make our core platform and which bits we weren’t planning to offer ourselves.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I don’t write about LA but I write from LA.