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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

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This might be technology, marketing, sales, operations, international expansion, etc. Maybe it’s knowledge of the players and dynamics of the mobile ad ecosystem. Functional Advisors come in with expertise in a particular area where you may need a second set of eyes.

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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 ).*. The Curation Team. Well, half of it. The Application.

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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. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC.,

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

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You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Feld: You seem to be operating from a perspective of “implied suspicion.” I don’t work this way – I much prefer to operate from a perspective of “implied trust.” You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Feld: You seem to be operating from a perspective of “implied suspicion.” I don’t work this way – I much prefer to operate from a perspective of “implied trust.” You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built.

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Part-Time Startup CTO?

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They tend to know the operations side of a software business well enough to be the one overseeing deploys, crafting the infrastructure plans, and monitoring the health of the product. It’s especially rare to find individuals who are going to be strong in a) business, b) operations, c) sourcing/managing talent, d) development.

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

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Are there any time-based operations? million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. 500ms increased response time means 20% less traffic for Google , 100ms increased response time decreases Amazon sales by 1% The impact is quite real. Any blocking operations? again, this is like a user type. Complex reports?