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5 Steps To Locking In The Right New Venture Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

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5 Strategies For Startup Partnering To Win Long Term

Startup Professionals Musings

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. In my view, this paranoid approach costs them much more than the risk of being open.

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Reflections on 2018: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. In my view, this paranoid approach costs them much more than the risk of being open.

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Spooky thought: Where would we be without our supporters?

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Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology).

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10 Funding Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Skip

Startup Professionals Musings

Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. At best we can count on it taking many years to catch on, just like other disruptive technologies before you.