Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block. Geographic customization.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

There was plenty more biomedical news this week, from a downsized IPO to downsizing companies, while ugly sexual harassment details emerged in Seattle. If you want a roundup of the week’s biotech’s news, read on. Buzzfeed reports that Katze is still drawing his UW salary, but his lab has been shut down.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

We now know that the medium has changed the news industry leading to blogs, real-time reporting, integration of text and video, two-way discussions, stories surfaced based on what your friends are reading, etc. So here’s my news for you: People still want telephone calls! Or can they? see here for more details ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Recent new brands like Facebook and Priceline.com each required over $50 million and several years to get to be premier brands. In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Here’s what we know: There’s news to round up. billion in yearly sales. —Separately, Bristol reported that nivolumab (Opdivo) became the first cancer immunotherapy drug to help patients with certain forms of stomach cancer live longer than they would on standard chemotherapy. Let’s get to it. TOP STORIES.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2016

But the news in our little corner of the world doesn’t stop. —Another health scourge was in the news: hepatitis. STAT was among the outlets to report that Gilead has also quietly raised prices on older HIV drugs, ostensibly to drive prescriptions toward newer alternatives. —It’s not clear if the U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

Then came the rumor mill: Companies may or may not be approaching Biogen about a sale, and Biogen may or may not be fielding offers. The Wall Street Journal reported that Cambridge, MA-based Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB ) has drawn interest from the likes of Merck (NYSE: MRK ) and Allergan (NYSE: AGN ) as a possible takeover target.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2010

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community is spawning a new breed of startups. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block. Give people a way to post news to specific geographic areas. Geographic customization. Subject matter granularity.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Amongst several companies to report this week, the biggest news came from Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD ), whose hepatitis C drugs have become some of the top revenue producers in the industry. But as David Holley reports, an experimental treatment from Rhythm Pharmaceuticals has a chance to fill the void.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

The CRISPR news this week doesn’t need a metaphor; the drama that MIT Technology Review reported can stand alone. —The FDA last summer approved two new cholesterol fighting drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors, but so far the market has rejected them, resulting in paltry sales. Be our guest and try it.).

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

There’s plenty more news to chew on as well, from the latest developments in the Zika battle to biotech’s sigh of relief when Medicare spending cuts were avoided (for now). Savara now aims to pull together a funding round to support a future IPO, David Holley reports. Alex Lash contributed to this report. Let’s get right to it.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This article will cover two things; First, the top mistakes small business owners make that end with inquiries leading you to the exit door before making a sale. The word “convince” shouldn’t exist in sales. Help a Reporter Out (HARO). Blogs and Forums. The best place to find a directory of blogs is AllTop.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

After reporting encouraging news last week from a mid-stage trial of its lead anti-cancer drug, San Diego’s MEI Pharma (NASDAQ: MEIP ) said it has signed a drug development deal with the Swiss pharmaceutical group Helsinn that could eventually be worth over $464 million.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. lament the coverage they get from journalists who reported the details unfairly. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Financial News. Developments Blog. If youre buying a luxury home or just like looking at them, check out this live chat from reporter Lauren Schuker Blum and WSJ.com real estate editor Matthew Strozier. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE. Upstate NY Retreat For Sale. Investment Land For Sale. MarketWatch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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