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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. Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.” Usually the reason the big companies are no threat is that the market is too small.

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

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Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company. You’re not a SaaS entrepreneur, you’re a software entrepreneur. ASP To SaaS To Software.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015.

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On-Demand Startups Are Completely Changing the Industry

Tech.Co

That all changed with social media , and now everyone is glued to their phone’s screen. On-demand companies broke into the national consciousness as much as a cultural phenomenon as a commercial one. But if the saga of on-demand companies is a foreshadowing of things to come, the future may be a bumpy ride.

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Check Your Entrepreneurial DNA Before You Start Up

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I can’t remember the last time any entrepreneur asked me to assess personal potential, despite the fact that most investors will admit they invest in the person more than the product. It was developed by Joe Abraham , who manages a portfolio of successful high-growth international companies. Specialist.

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Interview with Helen Lee, JOANY

socalTECH

We caught up with Helen, the co-founder and COO of JOANY, to learn more about the company. How did you start the company? Helen Lee: Christina and I started the company back in 2014. We had our Joan of Arc moment in Decembre of 2014, and therefore called the company JOANY. What's next now for the company?

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.