SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. My blog was wiped out. And covered we did. Thus is venture capital.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Today HuffPo is one of the most well-read and well respected online media outlets but when she started it in 2005 she had lots critics who dismissed her unpaid bloggers and editorial content. Everyone always talks about Steve Jobs and Apple but my vote goes to Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post. 4- My story in the publishing sector.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Brian Roland, an alumnus of Belmont University, had been working with Sprint for five years designing and developing online employee procurement portals for Fortune 100 companies. With a demonstrated market need and limited competition, Roland partnered with a custom software developer to co-found Abenity Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. This is so critical if you plan to build a strategic partner platform. How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

In my opinion, developing and executing an effective ma. Creating ready made ways to amplify your customer’s desire to promote is one of the secrets to extending your reach and impact into new customer opportunities. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2005, I wrote a post called Unfolding the Map in which I looked at these two seemingly opposing philosophies from successful entrepreneurs: If you don’t have a map, you can’t get lost If you don’t have a map, you can’t get where you’re going. and tried to combine them when thinking about product roadmapping. This started back in 2000.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Once I developed the fabric I wanted it to have a name that was memorable, and that described it in one word. However, over the course of the following 5 years, my love for tequila, my desire to develop a brand, and that nickname came together to birth Juan Lobo Tequila, leading me to become passionate about 100% blue agave, sipping tequilas.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

The cities chosen for the City Page beta test closely align with the first Google Offers beta tests and can be supported by the local Google sales and support staff. In my opinion, developing and executing an effective ma. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi. Adding the Facebook Like. : 7 Characteristics of a Re. :

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

To unlock buy-in and achievement, make your employees feel like valued partners by seeking out their opinions, ideas, and preferences. But no matter how full of “stuff” your plate may be, don’t lose sight of the fact that a crucial part of leadership is developing your people. So place a strong emphasis on developing them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. ” (Zig Ziglar).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. So at GRP Partners we’re very active now. You know what I’m talking about. You feel it, too. It’s surreal.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

Rather than losing respect for you as a leader, they’ll appreciate that you treated them as valued partners — and they’ll feel more invested in your company’s future because they had more of a hand in creating it. It can also show you how to best develop and support individual team members. How is your family?”. I have bad news.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005. So I'm looking for a lawyer looking for MBA programmer and a graphics developer. And on that call, it was a lawyer, an MBA and a graphics developer and the graphics developer, new programmer got him on the phone. If that's you.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If there are key companies in the industry your company is entering, consider partnering with them. The partnership will help boost awareness of your brand and also locks any copycat companies out of relationships with these partners. Form Strategic Partnerships.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Becoming an entrepreneur requires learning on so many levels from strategy, sales, marketing, and service. To me entrepreneurship is an accelerated journey for personal development and spiritual growth. I love the fact that I have complete control over my business, my sales and my delivery. 2- Endlessly interesting.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out. I was doing my own admin, sales and marketing while doing operations (delivering what I was selling).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Despite the country’s modest size, the tiny island of Singapore seems to be producing game development firms at a prodigious rate. It took the team of 20 some 14 months to develop both games, said Don Sim, the co-founder and CEO of Daylight Studios. Take homegrown games studio Daylight Studios , for example.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

If you lack a key component to running your business, consider finding a partner to handle that aspect. If you don’t want to bring in a partner, hire someone to fill in your “business gaps”, because it is exhausting to try to do everything yourself and invariably whatever you’re not comfortable doing won’t get done for the business.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. If you’re giving a large percentage of your company to someone (and yes, two percent is large), you’re entering into a contract that’s really a whole lot like marriage in that it creates a long-term relationship between you and the employee or partner.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes. He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Brian Clark: There’s two big developments that have happened in the last six months or so. As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. They’re the point of contact for the sale, but they’re also doing the substance of work for them as well.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. Member since 01/2005. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. MBO Partners State of Independence in America Study.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

He turned me down for a job in 2005. I spent time today negotiating it with him and getting my partners bought into some changes. I spent time today negotiating it with him and getting my partners bought into some changes. We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. Research & Development.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox , the Israeli-American startup developing optimization software for customer service centers, announced it has raised $18 million in financing from a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners sold part of its stake in Qlik Technologies Inc.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

My posts gained traction and — after I was lost my job following the 2008 market crash — peers encouraged me to develop not just content for the site, whose focused on the crossroads of arts and politics, but the business of blogging as well. My partner and I locked ourselves in a room for about 4 hours.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

It was the use of these very strategies that enabled me and my business partner, Bonnie Harvey, to found and grow Barefoot Cellars, the company that transformed the image of American wine from staid and unimaginative to fun, lighthearted, and hip. Trust me, I know what it’s like to try to start a business when you’re basically broke.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

I’m no science wiz, but I’ve always loved the idea of resistance in physics as a metaphor for the kind of resistance many business owners encounter when trying to spark a sale. Many times we can present a solution and price that seems like the obvious and logical choice, but can’t seem to make the sale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Far too often marketers spend all of their attention on the chase and the sale and not enough on the retain and remarkable experience. In my opinion, developing and executing an effective ma. In fact, you could argue, and I do, they are one in the same. Actually, I’m not a fan of the word retain, it seems a bit like satisfy.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If indeed you have any vision of selling your business in the future you’ve got to focus on marketing instead of simply focusing on sales. In my opinion, a greater focus on these elements not only creates greater sales, it leads to the creation of a more valuable asset – or something you might indeed be able to sell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

If you’ve ever wondered why your pure sales messages meet with resistance and deflection it’s because to most prospects you look like someone that is out to steal their money, time and attention – something akin to a predator. In my opinion, developing and executing an effective ma. Adding the Facebook Like. :

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Robert has been working in software since 2005. You can learn more about his approach to developing customer relationships in his new book Cold Calling Early Customers. You research the market and develop some materials that will improve their standing, sales, or prospects. He is a Ph.D.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Use technology to produce postcards that invite each recipient to a personal landing page that features information tailored to their interests and alerts a sales team to initiate a further contact. In my opinion, developing and executing an effective ma. The technology is there to do this in small batches with hundreds of variations.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth). VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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