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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. READ MORE>>.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. An obvious example would be in sales.

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This is How Startups “Level Up” After Raising Money

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The best ones bring in more executive leadership so you can appropriate allocate resources across sales, marketing, product, engineering and support. You finally need to start planning your product roadmap a bit further than your 2-week sprints so that the rest of the organization has a chance to preplan for new features.

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10 Ways An Entrepreneur Can Build A Winning Culture

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There is no rule that marketing needs to report to the founder, or that every startup needs a chief operating officer. Some of the best startup cultures have no hierarchical reporting, yet everyone knows who drives each of the initiatives. Technology can be used to facilitate customer support and sales, as well as enhance your product.

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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

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Even three person organizations are political. Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. This is akin in the US to having sales staff in NY, SF & LA with your HQ in one of these locations.

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

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Justice Department and SEC reported imposing over $1.5 Last year, this same type of legislation was adopted by thirty other nations and countries who are member of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”), with its much-awaited Good Practice Guidance for anti-bribery compliance programs.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles.

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