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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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And I believe that strength of the Y Combinator movement in America has been exactly this: take incredibly talented technologist who have a passion for an idea, let them launch it and let’s see what they produce and what the market reaction to this product will be. He didn’t feel my pressures on sales, marketing and ops.

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Web Second, Mobile First

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They are more likely to be the “bottom end of the sales funnel” or in other words close to “point of purchase.” I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites. It’s the new magazine.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. The world’s best brains are on sale. They would invent many more jobs than they would supplant.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

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In America being in this type of job means that you get 2 (maybe 3) weeks of vacation per year. Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. And so it was that I pushed to get jobs in LA, Miami, Rome, Barcelona, the South of France, London and Tokyo.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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However, the higher you get within an organization in the sale (and the larger the deal) executives are often looking to “win in the market,” which means growing revenue faster, offering products or services at a lower cost or offering features that their competitors can’t. ” 3.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Marketing futures can be really good for enterprise software companies where the information is passed between sales rep and potential customer in terms of near-term roadmap. At one company I work with it’s clear that our target user today is youth-oriented and middle America as opposed to 20-something and Silicon Valley or New York.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders.