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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

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Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius. He has also sailed a boat across the Atlantic.

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Digital Revenue Expert – Vince Thompson

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Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. Still it’s something that most managers need to learn how to do better.

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Goals Accountability and Social Support for Big Impact

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For example, the games that teach associates about product location in stores are fun and it’s rewarding to see the employee growth and certainly as it improves customer satisfaction, the store manager gets greater compensation and opportunities. For automotive sales associates, the rewards were prizes, trips, etc.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. Tech support is sales. they have purchasing intent ).*. But the rates are high for a reason. What should I do?’.

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Part-Time Startup CTO?

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They tend to understand the product management side of the product well enough to guide the technology in a complementary way. It’s especially rare to find individuals who are going to be strong in a) business, b) operations, c) sourcing/managing talent, d) development. I think that's the person you need.

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MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point

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Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you.