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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A great opportunity for more visible networking. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market).

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Interview with Chuka Ikokwu, Divercity.io

socalTECH

We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. MIT and McKinsey did some studies on this, that showed about $400 billion a year is lost in the tech industry, due to lack of diversity and inclusion. Those communities already exist.

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Study: $48 Billion In Value Created Over 15 Years In SoCal IT VC-Backed Firms

SoCal Delicious

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Tags: results investment exit california southern acquisition merger capital venture. IPO in 1996). "The

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Is Your Organization Ready to Become an Ecosystem Driver?

Xconomy

In a study conducted at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), we found that only 12 percent of large companies (with revenues more than $1 billion) are ecosystem drivers. In contrast, the smaller companies we studied have begun to focus on gaining knowledge of their customers and becoming more networked.

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8 Steps To Assembling The Most Talented Startup Team

Startup Professionals Musings

According to an Intuit study , that number is quickly rising and will approach 40 percent by 2020. Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. Leverage the broadest possible network. At the same time, more people in the workplace don’t want to be “employees.”

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Build On-Demand Teams Instead of Hiring Employees

Startup Professionals Musings

According to an Intuit study , that number is quickly rising and will approach 40 percent by 2020. Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. Leverage the broadest possible network. At the same time, more people in the workplace don’t want to be “employees.”

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