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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. Everyone must be part of the sales process. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/10/2015.

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7 Reasons Smart Startups Establish 'Coopetition'

Startup Professionals Musings

There's an opportunity for follow-on sales to existing customers. Every business brings a set of existing customers who are great candidates for additional sales from a partner-competitor. Why not improve your customer satisfaction by referring customers you can’t satisfy to someone who can?

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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. Usually it pays to dig deeper on lost sales opportunities and negative customer reviews to resolve a deep-seated product deficiency or delivery channel issue.

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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.

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How Smart Startups Survive Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/9/2015.

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

socalTECH

We took it to the market in January of 2015. If you read our reviews and customer satisfaction scores, it's very clear we've found product market fit. W actually opened up a second office in Columbus, Ohio, to serve as our East Coast sales office, and we're building out our sales force here in Los Angeles.

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