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Digital Revenue Expert – Vince Thompson

SoCal CTO

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. But I also like to be home with my family (or playing volleyball or whatever).

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Advice For Emerging Entrepreneurs (And Anyone Else With A Boss)

InfoChachkie

Never Negatively Surprise Your Boss – If you anticipate that a project will be completed late, that a sale will not close within the forecasted period or that a project is running over budget, tell your boss immediately. In a company’s early days, it is often the developers and product marketing team who must create the product.

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When Hiring Entrepreneurs, Ignore Their Resumes

InfoChachkie

Yet, all of them, save the drummer, were successful salespeople during my multi-year tenure as the company’s sales leader. If you hire Beach Volleyball players when you should be recruiting their indoor counterparts, your company’s morale, productivity and culture will suffer dramatically. .

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

InfoChachkie

Although this can be a bit chaotic, the free-flow of ideas during an adVenture’s Beach Volleyball days is often crucial to its eventual success. Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales. Analysts predict that AWS revenues will eventually exceed Amazon’s retail sales. The Two Pizza Rule.

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You Can’t Teach People To Be Entrepreneurs, But Entrepreneurs Can Be Taught

InfoChachkie

I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. You can read books, watch videos and talk with experts about how to hit a baseball, kick a soccer ball or serve a volleyball, but until you get on the field or court, you will never master the game.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

InfoChachkie

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. The term “flip” is used derisively by institutional investors to describe the sale of young companies.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

InfoChachkie

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. The term “flip” is used derisively by institutional investors to describe the sale of young companies.