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Charting Your Company's Course using Hoshin Kanri Techniques

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, April 23, 2009 -- Charting Your Company's Course using Hoshin Kanri Techniques. ASP Orange County's Akhilesh Gulati introduces us to Hoshin Kanri, a systematic quality approach to planning, executing, auditing and managing corporate visions and business strategies on a companywide basis.

Course 100
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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people.

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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

InfoChachkie

Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _.

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The Tyranny of Revenue Projections

The Quigley Report

What ASP will the market accept? Of course, that would be considered an inappropriate response since it is not based on some analystical foundation. Some have done much better, some have done much worse, but none have gotten to the desireable 95% accuracy rate I would like them to hit. How long is the sales cycle?

ASP 40
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Move Fast. Be Agile. Stay Focused.

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. The ability to execute at faster speeds and to rapidly adapt their course is what enables them to compete and to protect themselves from the big companies. It can quickly move you off course. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. My emotions tell me to go faster, logic and fear tell me to stay the course. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

Startup 40
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Of course, a lot of that time was spent convincing people that the Internet was going to grow, and therefore there was going to be a need to make it easy for people to find content and sites on the Internet. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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