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Tealium Adds $35M to Expand Technology, Sharpen Customer Focus

Xconomy

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

Ability to Pivot – I don’t like to invest in people that I’ve never met before who come through my office wanting to have a term sheet within 30 days. VCs often tell entrepreneurs that they want to see “traction&# before they’re ready to invest. They were rapidly innovating and involving customers.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. Several junior sales associates to handle online customer acquisition and orientation; and, 3. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

We evangelized to customer about the problems of on premise software. - Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. It’s a way to reach your customers. You have a data problem.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? When we invest they are often the company counsel so we see them at board meetings. He represented us at one firm I invested in and did a great job. Here’s a hack for you. Our lives are intertwined.

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