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Humana partners with Heal and invests $100 million in the company’s doctor-on-demand service

TechCrunch LA

” The new financing from Humana will go to support Heal’s geographic expansion, product development, and sales and marketing, Desai said. To date, the company has linked patients with over 200,000 home visits from doctors since its launch in 2015.

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6 Keys To Proving A Viable Startup Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Word of mouth is not adequate for marketing and sales. Customer support is more than handling exceptions. Customer support is more than handling exceptions.

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7 Reasons Smart Startups Establish 'Coopetition'

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s a win-win-win deal, since the ease-of-use attracts more people to the new site, it enhances the Facebook brand, and it simplifies the customer interaction. Here are the other reasons to use this strategy: It reduces common costs and customer learning curves. There's an opportunity for follow-on sales to existing customers.

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Interview with Mike Whitmire, CEO and Co-founder, FloQast

socalTECH

We took it to the market in January of 2015. In our first year of selling, we brought on over 50 clients, and last year we had 170 customers, and we now have about 40 employees. He said, this is great, and said they were really interested in getting more enterprise customers. So I said, okay, I'll go make that happen.

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8 Problem-Solving Practices Give Startups Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Creating an innovative new business is guaranteed to test your skills, patience and determination, and you need to derive satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination. That means practicing non-defensive listening to key advisors, team members and customers. You can’t solve a problem if you don’t see one.

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How Smart Startups Survive Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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Goals Accountability and Social Support for Big Impact

SoCal CTO

Of course, improving customer satisfaction is a goal, but the system would drill down to specific issues such as knowledge of store layout. For automotive sales associates, the rewards were prizes, trips, etc. In fact, we’ve also used it as a means of some fairly generic goal setting processes.