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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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I opened up an office for them, doing early stage selling, then I built a client services department for HotJobs, and then after Yahoo acquired them, I moved back into sales, in Sales Management, and I helped manage and rebuild a team in San Francisco. They got a bunch of investors, including some from Austin.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. portfolios. Do so at your peril.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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billion to Yahoo! Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. is it not obvious to people to not name your company on somebody else’s product) can diversify and innovate maybe there’s room for growth. uh, hello!

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. But also when you’re developing so is your competitor.