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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

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The program is basically to take entrepreneurs, pair them with a mentor who is also an entrepreneur themselves, either a CEO or a CTO. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors. There might be one or two mentors, one might be a CTO, another, a CEO.

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

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Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. On sales I often talk about “ Why Buy Anything, Why Buy Now, Why Buy Me ” as a tool to think about a sales process. Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. If you're like many people, you're having more and more public conversations, but there is no tool out there similar to Gmail which a lot of people use to organize their whole life. Ultimately, we're build tools for marketers on top of that.

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The Truth Behind Display Advertising: Adomic's Quest For Transparency

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But, there are no big tools out there to see what is going on. Most of the popular tools people use were written ten years ago, when the advertising space was completely different. I met my co-founder and CTO, Tom, there, and worked on a bunch of projects together. I moved to Microsoft and was there for six and a half years.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO). Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up. On the technology side, Rob Patrick, our CTO, has 20 plus years of experience in software development. What is Beatshare?

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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Scott Ferreira: MySocialCloud helps user manage their online life, through three tools. By the end of my sophomore year, I decided to go after this full time, and that's when I officially brought on a CTO, Shiv Prakash, and we went at it in the summer of 2011, and the rest is kind of history. Both have been great mentors ever since.