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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

This fertile crescent of B2B technology is an unbeatable homebase for a growing technology product’s sales, marketing, and success teams. In addition, San Francisco is within striking distance of other major US B2B tech markets, like New York and Chicago. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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Navigating the Challenges of Scaling

Duct Tape Marketing

A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and The Economic Club of Chicago. He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Looking forward to chatting.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and I bet you it's more than one bike if I had the gas. So did you, I'm envisioning you like going down the street in Chicago somewhere knocking on restaurant doors and saying, I have an idea, you want to like be part of this.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November. I know that theres a lot of GroupOn bashing still in the press, but you can’t deny the kickstart its had on the local Chicago tech community. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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What Is Leadership?

YoungUpstarts

But as a company starts to see growth and needs to hire sales, marketing, support and other functions, scaling to hundreds or thousands of people, technology vision needs to be augmented with leaders who can build high-functioning teams. .” Creating a Great Team. As startups grow, they need to scale recruiting.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. They recognize the average lifespan of a client is 3-6 months, so they implement a strong sales team to consistently search for new clients. We would name our sales intelligence company Vainu. 10-Passion. 17- To help start-ups.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

Parades are held, speeches are given, and workers across the country take an extra day’s rest from their labors to picnic, play with their kids, and (often) shop the sales that businesses love to offer on the last official day of summer. John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met.

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