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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›. New York ›.

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Should Startups Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Decide Once and For All

View from Seed

Your primary CTA needs to ask readers to subscribe to the blog via email (and not RSS, by the way). Similarly, the value of a blog is how much work each post does for you in aggregate. Either way, the value of your blog is actually all of those posts working together in aggregate, especially in the longtail, not the head.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs). Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! Hiring a Senior Web Analyst? Triggers, Benchmarking, Identifying Goals & KPI Cards. Five Rules for High Impact Web Analytics Dashboards. Web Analytics: A Puzzle or A Mystery?

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Tips to kick-start the traffic of your new user-generated content.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Make a list of the 5 most popular blogs in your niche and subscribe to their RSS feeds. (I I recommend Google Reader to read and subscribe to the RSS feeds). Submit your website to news aggregator websites. I don’t put a link in all my comments, only when I believe it adds value to my comment.

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And it hires very smart people from the best schools. BTW, by the standards mentioned in the Times article, the following people would never have been interviewed or hired at Google. Google is looking to hire workers. I love Google. I think its one of the smartest companies out there. Or Microsoft or IBM. They found companies.