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10 Ways for Startups to Expand Their Reach in 2012

Startup Professionals Musings

By utilizing economies of scale, location, and common design, you may be able to provide a better solution faster for a lower cost. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. New products or services to existing customers. Extrapolate the technology you already know.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. We both wanted to continue to build a world-class staff at GRP from which to build future leaders in either tech startups or in our investment firm. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

This is class four for Launchpad LA. Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. The teams have accomplished an incredible amount in the past four months.

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LA’s Chewse Joins 500 Startups | A Better Marketplace For Us To Easily Order Great Food

Tech Zulu Event

500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at. Chewse now joins the 500 current class commencing today, November 31 with an aim to even be a better marketplace for groups to easily order great food.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program. Parking In Motion (PIM) is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data.

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