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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Dealmachine Blog</title><description>Blog about sales &amp; marketing, product, company and our experiences.</description><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog</link><image><url>http://dealmachine.net/ui/img/favicon.png</url><title>Dealmachine Blog</title><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog</link><width>64</width><height>64</height><description>Blog about sales &amp; marketing, product, company and our experiences.</description></image><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:11:29 +0000</pubDate><item><title><![CDATA[Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, part 6: Fadi Bishara on Fostering Entrepreneurship]]></title><description><![CDATA[VIDEO: In the concluding episode of our video blog series "Dealmachine in Silicon Valley", Fadi Bishara, a Cofounder at Blackbox, explains his take on how to foster entrepreneurship, even outside the Silicon Valley.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/13</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/13</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:11:29 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, Part 8: Ville Vesterinen about PR and launching in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[VIDEO: We talked with Grey Area CEO Ville Vesterinen who had just arrived from New York, doing PR work for the US launch of the company's location based iPhone game Shadow Cities – about to be launched next week from the interview.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/12</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/12</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:52:35 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, part 7: Ricky on product/market fit]]></title><description><![CDATA[VIDEO: Crowdbooster's CEO and SSE Labs' entrepreneur-in-residence Ricky Yean explains what they learned in Y-Combinator and how they found their way to their current product.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/11</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/11</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 05:51:58 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, part 5: Vlad – long time no BootCamp!]]></title><description><![CDATA[VIDEO: Vlad Gurgov, founder of Videolla.com and attendee of the first AaltoVG BootCamp, Spring 2010 (now known as StartupSauna), tells how he feels about the BootCamp and what has happened since.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/10</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/10</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 04:14:17 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, part 4: Taro Franke on moving to the Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[VIDEO: Petsicon's Taro Franke tells his story how he came to the Y-Combinator interview as a single founder as his co-founder left for Google and what are his next steps on his journey towards founding a startup in the SV]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/9</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/9</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 19:27:06 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, part 3: Ovelin's Mikko on their first journey to the Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[VIDEO: Ovelin's Mikko Kaipainen explains why they took a head start to come to the valley even before attending Startup Sauna.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/8</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/8</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 04:54:18 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, part 2: Kristo's thoughs on his first longer stay in the Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[VIDEO: Founder of Aalto Entrepreneurship Society and Aalto Venture Garage Kristo Ovaska stayed in the SV for about three months during the spring 2011. 

As he was leaving, he was kind enough to share his thoughts on what he learned during that time and what the next steps now are.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/7</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/7</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:48:34 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meeting new, relevant people –– the numbers game]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coming to the Valley as a part of a group is quite different than organizing the trip yourself – both kinds of trips might be as hectic and successful, but setting up meetings and knowing who to talk to is very different when you’re on your own.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/6</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/6</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 05:33:10 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, part 1: Coming to the Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[VIDEO: Dealmachine in Silicon Valley, part 1: Coming to the Valley.

We interviewed couple of local founders and the Walkbase guys on their SV visit.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/5</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/5</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 04:05:08 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why all startups should come to Silicon Valley as early as possible]]></title><description><![CDATA[For most early-stage Finnish startups, coming to the Silicon Valley is not about getting funded. Getting realistic feedback to understand your strengths and weaknesses is far more important.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/3</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/3</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 05:48:12 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Zone: Getting into sales flow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many sales trainers talk about &quot;Phone Phobia&quot; and how to overcome it. Getting into contact with new people requires taking action, but is also very rewarding once you get the hang of it.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/2</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/2</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning the Sales Game with Dealmachine 2.0]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking back to when we first started about a year ago, we
had nothing more than the idea to make sales more fun &#8211; for the actual
salesperson doing it. Our team has never worked in a CRM software company
before. Although some say that's a weakness, we think that's actually only a good
thing. &nbsp;Why's that, you might ask. Well, because we think the whole CRM software
scene needs new ideas from fresh directions.]]></description><guid>http://dealmachine.net/blog/1</guid><link>http://dealmachine.net/blog/1</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:31:05 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

