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Investors Know A Product Doesn’t Make a Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Equally important, marketing and sales people should be able to identify benefits and marketing strategies, set prices, and validate a business model. Market research. Competition analysis. Development and rollout.

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Entrepreneurs Confuse Product and Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Equally important, marketing and sales people should be able to identify benefits and marketing strategies, set prices, and validate a business model. Market research. Competition analysis. Development and rollout.

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

InfoChachkie

Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. These two areas of operational innovation allowed Dell to defeat a number of tech-centric competitors which spent significant money researching and developing technological features, ever briefer product lifecycles.

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Don’t Assume Product Plans are Better Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Equally important, marketing and sales people should be able to identify benefits and marketing strategies, set prices, and validate a business model. Market research. Competition analysis. Development and rollout.

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Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

Xconomy

The only remaining daptomycin patent will expire in June, clearing the way for generic competition years earlier than expected. A company official told Xconomy the drug would be priced in line with standard of care enzyme replacement therapy, which costs around $300,000 per patient, per year.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. Research in Motion (RIM). Primal Instincts, How Body Language and Personality Dictate Success - Will Price , November 9, 2010 Want to be successful, well-liked, effective? You got it.