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Startup Mentors

SoCal CTO

Or in the case of the LinkedIn outreach: Hi John, I'm leading the marketing efforts for StartupRoar , an early-stage startup that sells to B2B advertisers. You should begin asking at networking events and people you know in the startup world. For me, I'd use LinkedIn. Can I buy you a coffee and talk to you about my challenges?

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

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On a separate note, Cliff, should I add your blog.allen.com to the B2B Marketing Zone ? For meetings aimed at helping salespeople network, I like B2B Power Exchange ( www.b2bpowerexchange.com ). What do you think about using Browse My Stuff / a Topic Hub to reach influencers in the meeting organizer space?

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Startup CTO Speaking

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Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

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Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. Important Implications Well I'm currently working with startup founders on their systems in JRuby, Django, PHP and Java.

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Online Business Networking Los Angeles

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Ambal Balakrishnan who I've been talking to about interviews and content marketing as it relates to B2B marketing as well as discussing aggregation in B2B Marketing suggested that I should answer the following about this business networking group: What topics will your "conversations" be about?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. landing pages, etc. Foreign Service. I'll connect offline on both of those.