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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I was impressed with their desire to truly understand the customer. Back then it seemed foreign.

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APRIL 28, 2014

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? This doesn’t make sense.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Example: Netflix). Develop your business plan. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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