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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. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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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. Yep, that sounds lowly.

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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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Los Angeles CTO / VP Engineering Job Searches

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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 are looking both for introductions to the targets you know about, but even more importantly finding out who might have needs that you don’t know about.

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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

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billion dollar mistake. Vision Synching in a Lean Startup The Fallacy of Customer Development Entrepreneurs, Lower Investors’ Risk by Validating your Start-up Company’s Business Proposition Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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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. You’ve got a REALLY diverse background. What’s the short version?

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Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics

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Instead, give me the details on how you’re going to make your sales, and to whom, on the first day, the first quarter, and the first year. I agree completely: If it makes you feel better to give me that number in passing, okay, go ahead, but don’t put any emphasis on it. Give me granularity.

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