I just got back from Adtech San Francisco late last night. It was a pleasure working with Jody Salamirad our West Coast Sales Director for the first time and the ever so handsome Randy Mountz. This was Jody's first PayPerPost trade show and she was a great team player. I am convinced we were friends in a past life!

Adtech had a great turnout and our booth was packed all the time so needless to say we were happy to have 3 working it. Over the past month our team has been traveling to a bunch of trade shows from NYC to San Francisco with much success. Overall San Francisco is one beautiful city along with great food and oh and to top it off we had the Dali Lama staying in our hotel... how cool is that!

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In this episode Jody, the new West Coast Sales Director, faces the challenges of her first few weeks on the job.

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There is one thing most people have in common. That thing is embarrassing childhood photos. I figured I would get my 'Where were they then?' post done now, so that by the time the rest of the team has done it, this post will hopefully have moved off the front page of the blog.

Now we were told to go back about 5 years, but for me, 5 years isn't really a big change. Don't get me wrong, a lot has happened in 5 years...but from 17 to 22, my looks haven't changed much. So, I'm going a little bit further back than that.

I don't know exactly how old I am in these pictures...but, I know for sure I wore this Native American costume more than once. I liked it. Don't judge me...

I would also like to give my Mom a shout out for making this awesome costume. :)

And just because I was that cool...I would dress like a cowgirl sometimes. Now, we didn't have a 'Cowboy/girl Day' at school and I don't recall ever having been a cowgirl for Halloween, so I'm not exactly sure why I dressed like this. But I also remember wearing this outfit more than once.

I'll give you one more kid picture of me, just because I think its cute.

And, just so I can stick to the assignment, here is a picture of me 5 years ago. I was in Honduras, building houses. It was definitely the BEST experience of my life thus far and I am hoping I can go back soon!


Love,

Ashley (girl)

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The older we get, we wonder- what happened to ol' so and so? Or, wonder what became of what's-her-name... Well, Karen and I discovered that if you wonder about a lot of people, and then finally catch up with them, the mystery dies. That's not fun.

Now, since you know where we have ended up, how about a little peek into where/what we were?

I'm going first- mostly because I happen to have pictures readily available. Ok- five years ago, the year is 2002- I begin my senior year at Dunedin High School, Dunedin, Florida. I was a good student- though I was suspended the last week of school, senior year. Don't ask! I had to take my final exams the first week of summer. :) Below is a picture of me and my groupmates in Tallahassee, for the state History Day competition. We won every year- can you say nerd? The guy to my right is my best friend, Kevin- we went to Europe together. He has a very funny blog.

Next to that picture is an image of my brothers, Serge and Julius, with their band, RedArrow. They have a neat song called 'Cool,' which I make Julius dedicate to me at shows...[in the photo are my good friend Kenny, brothers Julius and Serge, and their drummer, Adriel]. Then there's a picture of Julius, he's the lead singer. I'm the middle child, the only girl. Julius is the baby.

The last picture is of my brothers and me in Toronto, I believe I am 8. Don't mind the parachute pants or slippers...or sideways ponytail. It was the early 90's, dangit! Also, don't mind Serge, he's a big goof- and at the time, the Celtics were darn good [we're from Bahstan]. Don't hate!

Stay tuned for stories from yesteryear from the rest of the CL team!

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Ted is in London attending a conference during Valentine's Day.

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It's been a long and pretty hectic week, so Ted asked if we'd lighten the mood with a collective dev team blog post. Here it is! 3 secrets about everyone on the dev team that no-one ever dreamed of asking.

Pete
1. Pete is phobic of riding horses. He doesn't mind stroking them, leading them, standing near them, but make him get on one and he crumples in a blubbering wreck on the floor.
2. In moving to America Pete has managed to hide (until now) his infamous party trick. Imbibed with enough alcohol he'll snort absolutely anything and was once in crippling agony after taking a dare to snort extra hot chilli sauce.
3. Despite his over zealous use of the F-Word (see Rockstartup), a love of motorcycles and a passion for anything with an engine, he's a big softie. He lives with two dogs called, appropriately, Mac and Tosh.

Trev
1. There's a web cartoon loosely based on me.
2. I have a birthmark on the back of my head that is turns my hair black only in that one spot.
3. I am invisible to cattle....seriously they can't see me.

Eric
1. I once drove to NYC from Florida and back in 2 days so a friend could propose to a girl he met online, all to make a great documentary called The Proposal
2. My cat Tut is a famous barking cat you may have seen on VH1 or Youtube.
3. I have an unnatural obsession with Finding Nemo. There is a Finding nemo stuffed fish 3 feet from my head as I type.

Priscilla
1. My top 3 favorite bands are The Beatles, Led Zepplin, and Pink Floyd (in that order)
2. My birthday is on leap year day
3. I am the princess of Antarctica, but I don't have official paperwork to back that up

Scott
1. Depending on whom I'm talking to my favorite qoutes are: "I would rather live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a sheep" or "Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons as you are crunchy and go well with mustard"
2. Favorite color: Black!
3. Least fascinating fact: I can cross only one eye.

Larry
1. I used to play Super Smash Brothers Melee (SSBM) for money
2. I listen to radioblogclub.com way too much
3. I can be seen flying into a face-to-wall-plant at the end of this video

Dan
1. I really like the ROI posts from Ted lately. It's really fun to watch how a campaign progresses over time, and how it benefits our advertisers. With that, I thought it would be fun to share with your some graphs from the development side of PPP:

Here is a glimpse of stuff in the works:

We are also very aware of bugs in the system and work super hard to squash those for our users. Just look at our Bug Report! :)

2. The picture of me you see on the boards is a self portrait I did about 10 years ago. It's done with pastels and is about 2 x 3.5 feet in size

3. I have an unnatural ability to know exactly what my girlfriend is giving me for Christmas, every Christmas, no excepts, 4 years running. No, I don't search the closet, under the bed, her car trunk... I JUST know! Spooky, huh?

Dray
1. I can pop every joint in my body.
2. Marion Barry was arrested for smoking crack on my birthday.
3. I once drove from Orlando to Boston to see a concert at the Hatch Shell.

Jamie
1. I was a ballerina for 15 years
2. All of the flare on my desk is stolen from other people
3. I drink on the average 5 shots of espresso per day.

Steve
1. During the Disco era I tore up many dance floors. People use to get me confused with John Travolta
2. My favorite slogan is "Believe to achieve"
3. I have a Minature Dashund named Amanda

Mark(Mark abstained, so we'll just make his up)
1. There is a picture on the postie wall of Mark in a Superman costume. Mark goes home every night and dresses up as his favorite comic superheros.
2. Mark is an avid sky-diver, but unknown to all his friends he only does it to look tough. He cries like a baby all the way up, and all the way down.
3. Mark never answers his phone out of office hours. While he claims to be single, we know that he does in fact live with a very old, quite domineering woman who refuses any form of technology in her house (he's a kept man too).

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Who's Bad?

In this episode of RockStartUp, Ted is in Boca Raton at the Florida Venture Forum to give a presentation to venture capitalists for a potential second round of funding. After a sub par presentation at the Always On Conference in New York City, Ted contemplates going over the top for this presentation.

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