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Business 2015 - Optimism, But Upgrade Your Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs and small businesses not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that they were able to fix. See where you can maximize this type of profit.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. For starters you have to realize that fund-raising is a sales process. and then asking to take a brochure home with you.

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

socalTECH

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. There are tons of studies that we've done that show when a brand is not good, that employment brand, it impacts your entire brand and the people you can get to come work for your company, and the people you can get to stay. You've got to have great sales enablement.

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How PointPredictive Is Using Machine Learning To Uncover Fraud, With Tim Grace

socalTECH

What we studied and surveyed with all of our lenders, is that right now that market is a $4 to $6 billion dollar industry, with lots of fraud from mis-representation. For example, it could be a simple typo, or it could be that I just didn't know that they needed my gross income, and actually put down my net income instead.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

socalTECH

We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. We then got some additional funding, of essentially high net worth individuals, not insittutional funds. Those are the two big things.

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Bio Roundup: FDA Says No, PCSK9 Value Fight, CRISPR Intrigue & More

Xconomy

And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. —The FDA last summer approved two new cholesterol fighting drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors, but so far the market has rejected them, resulting in paltry sales. Talk about sacrifice.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

InfoChachkie

I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. However, greater exposure to studies performed by other, less widely-read persuasion experts would have been appreciated. I was not disapointed. Tricking The Jedi.