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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

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Also, more recently, I was with LiveNation and was building point-of-sales applications. What's your background? Brian McKelvey: For the last ten years, I've worked in software engineering, ranging from building social viral games for Paramount, Lionsgate, and GSN. It's been a combination of both social gaming and business applications.

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

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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. Raising money. Hiring employees. Learn HTML.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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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. Here’s a hack for you. Most lawyers that work with startups are willing to work on a deferred payment schedule.

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

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Do you have sales productivity software? The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Blog on that topic. Do you have an application that helps mobile developers build HTML5 apps? You know your blog topic. Check out SalesCrunch posts.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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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. A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2.

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

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I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. I have a very detailed article that covers stuff I won’t cover in detail in this post.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Chris Tragos: The tree founders of Jetpack, myself, Kevin Woolery, and Marc Brown were all working on the publisher side at Spin Media (Editor's note: previously Buzznet) I was running sales, development, and operations, and looking at all these RFPs that came in. They wanted something custom, to close the deal.

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