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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Email updates frequently. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. In a world where 90% of communications is non-verbal imagine what is lost on conference calls. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location.

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Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

Raising money is a sale and selling requires persistence and follow up. The best sales people never give up and they are politely persistent in finding new ways to get in front of target buyers. I see too many founders that are willing to do all of their meetings as phone calls or video-conference pitches. Face time = winning.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! That’s right… just about the same amount of time it takes to sell out a Radiohead show at the Forum. is also hiring.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

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