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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

Last time we met I didn’t have my CTO with me. Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” (In New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. I always tell people that fund raising is a sales process.

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The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups

Genuine VC

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. The post The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups appeared first on GenuineVC.'

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Kayak is great Boston-area success story. Tech support is sales. Lots to learn from him.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. We got 300.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

www.entrepreneur.com

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Sales & Marketing. Coming soon to Dallas, Boston and Philadelphia. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. just $1 per issue!

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The Lean Startup Book Tour

Startup Lessons Learned

George Street, Toronto (ON) BOOKSALE: additional copies of The Lean Startup will be available for sale at the event FEE: $30 per person (fee includes HST, the session and 1 copy of The Lean Startup ) TO REGISTER: Click Here Tuesday, September 20 - New York Unfortunately, all of my events in New York on this trip are closed to the public.

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