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For purposes of clarity, lawyers don't get 50%, and whatever they do get needs to be approved by the judge. It's often 20-30% depending on work.

Thank you, much appreciated!

It was interesting how much he talked about coachability and providing training. He put more emphasis on that then every other speaker today

You're right, but what you're looking for is someone who joined a start up early and grew the sales team successfully and now wants to go back go an early stage start up. Some people like building and working with early stage companies

One of the most interesting comments during the Q and A was Aaron recommended people don't be blinded by resumes (paraphrasing) "Just because people work at google, they might have 10k people there, doesn't mean they all [google employees\ are qualified or a good fit to join an early stage start up"

This is helpful, although where are the actual exchanges?

This is not a marketing ploy and has nothing to do what our company does. This was a bet between friends, and everyone I told this story to got a kick out of it. That, plus the fact I hoped someone on HN could help me solve this puzzle led us to post the story.

The photo used in the story is not her. I am 100% certain. The photo in the blog is a picture of a random girl who lives in another part of the country, has different physical attributs, and is a different age than the original girl in question

No, there was no hint about what company she worked for. And she didn't apply to work at Elastic / Close.io either

When I told her about the bet she laughed and took it all in stride. She thought it was funny.

Wait, whats the solution?

Surpringly well. I told her about the bet and she took everything in stride. She actually laughed when I told her. Shes a pretty awesome girl

@asymetric - I am not an engineer, I don't know how a lot of these things work. Rather than critique, I would appreciate a better analogy that I can use in the future

No, I am sitting with engineering founders from a different company who looked at the same picture sent in the same way I sent it to phil.

They knew what high school because it was a slip up. If you knew these guys, they aren't the kind who would just sit there and look at pictures. They had some software running.

FYI, I am a sales guy...not an engineer

How would they have gotten my GPS location? And how would they have figured out which one was her house. I was in her neighborhood and stopped multiple places that were 'significant' to her as a kid. Any of them could have been her house. And I wasn't at anyone for more than 60 seconds

They knew what high school she went to (I just found out), but probably didn't know exactly how old she was.

There are no digital yearbooks from the high school. I checked

I am positive they didn't do number 1.

I am positive they didn't have number 2

There were no other people in the photo

What other snippets of information would be useful?

And they never met her, only I did. So they didn't know her name. And yeah, I said "I met a cute girl." I didn't say I met "name"

I resent the fact that you think I'm an idiot. I have had two engineers check for EXIF data and there is 'nothing interesting in there'

I can confirm there is no GPS coordinates embedded in the photo

Has anyone found specific language that is effective when 'asking for the sale'?