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7 Critical Success Factors For A Services Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/20/2014. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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7 Entrepreneur Traits That Let You Soar With Angels

Startup Professionals Musings

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Registered patents and other intellectual property. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/28/2014. Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

There is a battle between entrepreneurs who try to change the world and solve a meaningful problem and those who write take-down pieces with no apparent personal benefit other than attention. We checked patents. What about competing patents. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. ” **. I was not fried. It is safe.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. acquired Overture for $1.63