SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. What you should be gathering from this is that looking for a job is more of a sales process than anything else and there are no easy answers. You need to start by figuring out who your suspects are.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2019

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. A full-stack engineer can describe my work at CouponBirds. What is your job at CouponBirds?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Here, we’ll show you 6 tips on how to turn your website into a booming source of leads, enquiries and red hot sales. At the same time, your search engine rankings will be affected too. Optimise Your Website For The Search Engines. This is where Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) comes into place.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. The next sale isn’t quite as sweet.). This moment in WP Engine’s saga is one of those. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. Social media is not rocket science.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

But in 2020, the number of online sales coming from mobile is 49.2%. LimeSpot is an AI personalization recommendation engine. They’re able to plug into your sales data and use their algorithm to make accurate search predictions/suggestions to the user. A better search experience leads to fewer dead ends and more completed sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. This is NOT the same as or better than Search Engine Optimization (SEO). With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale).

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

For sales processes, machine learning is a dream come true. Not all sales tools are created equal, though. The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Node, an AI-powered discovery engine , is going all-in on sales enablement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” This conversation will be a great opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to learn more about implementing Lean Startup ideas.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

So it’s important to ensure that your website is visually there on search engine results and rankings. This is where search engine optimization can play a big part to help your website thrive. Enabling the use of keywords to ensure that your site comes up highly recommended on search engines like Google.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Getting people to your site is one thing, but you must not forget the desire for sales. While social media is vital, search engine traffic is still the key to success. Moreover, people equate a strong search engine presence with quality and professionalism. Important Details Are Missing. The SEO Features Are Lacking.

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Sales Software Review Social Media eCommerce 113

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.”

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Engineer Silicon Valley Part-Time VPE Advisory Board 198

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2019

by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. tech industry , companies using steel , and manufacturers of engineered hardwood floors are already feeling the pain. Here are four ways your sales team can help when tariffs are putting pressure on profits: 1. Mexico, and Canada.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 28, 2014

Note that summer sale pricing for the conference ends on Monday night, so register now for the best deal possible. Generally, operational excellence is far more important for a VP of Engineering or a VP of Sales than for a VP of Marketing or CFO. Herewith, our introductions. Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s a shared workspace so buyers and sellers can work together throughout the laborious B2B sales process—making it a lot more collaborative and a lot less painful. . As part of the founding sales teams at Stripe (Ross) and Google Cloud (Ryan) saw how little innovation there was around the buyer <> seller relationship.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

A while back I wrote a bunch of posts on Sales & Marketing and have been meaning to get back to that theme for a while. Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. You learn by asking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 5, 2021

Modern Sales Mastery Show – The Ultimate Marketing Engine written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Catch my conversation with Vengreso’s Viveka von Rosen on the Modern Sales Mastery show, where we discussed “Optimizing The Customer Journey.”You

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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Rembrandt Communications

JUNE 30, 2020

As a small business owner, you probably have all kinds of content going out to current and potential customers including social media, articles, newsletters, emails, sales messages, and more. If you don’t know what your content is doing for your business right now, you may actually be losing customers and sales to the competition!

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2020

by Elizabeth Thede, director of sales at dtSearch. In the real world, downloading a search engine is a more realistic option to finding data. The Internet isn’t organized, but you can instantly find what you are looking for using an online search engine. What kind of searching can your search engine support?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 341

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. Social media is not rocket science.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

One of the most effective and best digital marketing strategies is Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a key aspect of every successful business. Search engines rank websites on result pages according to their popularity and their credibility to provide the most reliable and genuine results to users. 1. Credibility. 2. Visibility.

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Rembrandt Communications

MARCH 1, 2022

Then, you can use specific wording, search engine optimization tactics, landing pages, emails, and more to track responses for that messaging. Start with brief training sessions on copywriting, search engine optimization, social media, financial operations, sales, and more.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Here’s why: because they take technology that used to be available to engineers only, and make it available to everyone. They’re still built that way by the product’s engineers. The point of no-code tools is to empower non-engineers to create. The no-code revolution has begun. How no-code tools work.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

VP of Sales, Monetate - Philadelphia, PA A finger hovers above a mouse button. Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. The company is not just looking for a VP of Sales, but for a champion for all things sales throughout the organization. It wants to click.

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Rembrandt Communications

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, PR can provide many benefits that can actually catapult sales and give you a competitive edge cost-effectively. Today, search engines like Google rank websites based on the value they provide about a specific topic. Specifically, here are…. 5 Reasons to Review That PR Proposal Before It Ends Up In the Trash.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Read on to gain insights on how to create digital publicity through search engine optimization. Search Engine Optimization for Digital Publicity. On the other hand, search engine optimization entails the venture ranking high in the search engines. Digital medial platforms are a valuable tool to create brand awareness.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

“It kinda sucks to be engineer #1.”. That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Engineer #1?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2018

5 Steps to Small Business Search Engine Optimization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. That’s how you think strategically about search engine optimization. For local businesses, Google My Business has become one of your most important search engine optimization assets.

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Search Engineer Small Business SEO 68

Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It starts with the hiring process.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2020

Importantly, your site structure also has search engine optimisation (SEO) benefits. If this is the case, search engines won’t always be able to accurately determine which piece of content is most important and you could be left competing against yourself as well as your competitor brands.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

The Sharks tend to like businesses that come with some matured development in terms of recent and growing sales and most of the ones that don’t get a deal have significant inventories of product and assets without any supporting sales. They put their energies in important things, but not the ONE MOST CRITICAL thing…Sales.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It starts with the hiring process.

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Hiring Sales Engineer Software Engineering 77

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2020

Redesigning a website is a great way to drum up some new traffic, encourage users to give your new page a look, and re-establish yourself with the major search engines after an overhaul. This is a great way to stay relevant without sending out sales-y emails, and could result in some good engagement. Improve Your SEO Efforts.

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Design SEO Engineer Web Development 153

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Sales & Marketing. Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team.

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