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Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Respected More Than Loved

Both Sides of the Table

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Of if your VP Sales isn’t complaining about marketing she’s trying to get the function reporting to her. Do you hire more sales people? As CEO, do you step in?

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Helping Consumers Name Their Own Price For Products, With Greentoe

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Once you put your offer in, you enter your credit card, and you commit to the sale. Once that offer is accepted, that make the sale, and the retailer handles the transaction just as if it happened on their own website. We take a commission on the sale, and everybody is happy. How does the matching process work?

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company. and Microsoft had become.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. We''re now figuring out to take that to market and driving it through our sales channel.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. We''re now figuring out to take that to market and driving it through our sales channel.

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Biz2Beach To Stream Live Here On TechZulu

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Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo! Garth Holsinger, VP of Global Sales and Business Development, Klout. Robyn Ward, Director of Sales and Business Development, Betterworks. At BetterWorks, she’s known as the “Startup Rockstar,” responsible for business development and sales.

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