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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

socalTECH

If you want to create 3D content for those worlds, it requires 3D graphics design tools like 3D Studio for the Mac, or Maya Studio for the PC, in order to build that content, or to create your own custom avatars and rooms. Also, more recently, I was with LiveNation and was building point-of-sales applications. What's your background?

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers. We offer up customers a high impact creative which is not bounded by the box. As a result, our customers see a much higher percentage of engagement, more than 5 percent, versus the standard ad creative, which is a very small percentage of that.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

Number one is sales. Life is sales. Business development is sales. Winning customers is sales. Getting press is sales. ” In addition to sales, Mark advocates that emerging entrepreneurs gain some experience coding. .” Learn JavaScript. Go see customers yourself. Learn HTML.

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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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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? Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. The agreement they sent said, “we may offer your services to our customers.&# This went unnoticed by the CEO and the lawyer. And Brad Feld.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. and it’s where I got my custom URL’s grp.vc What should you blog about?

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