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6 Tips For A Marketing Focus To Match Your Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t state clearly why your startup is the only choice, then it’s time to regroup before spending your hard-fought funding. Do case studies and gather customer testimonials, as well as build relationships that lead to advocacy, loyalty, and word-of-mouth support. Talk to real live customers in addition to marketers.

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

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Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund? All of that represents opportunity, as well.

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8 Keys For Transforming An Innovation Into A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m happy to add my own insights here for your consideration to her suggested eight essential lessons, with supporting case studies, for evolving any innovative idea into a business reality: Every innovation must solve a customer problem. Investors expect this step to be proven successful before funding.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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3rd Annual India Trade Conference

SoCal Tech Calendar

Insights on the New India Environment and Trends Real-World Case Studies and Interactive Panels Keys to Successfully Doing Business with India Renewable Energy and Social Entrepreneurship Global Risk Mitigation Strategies Funding your Business Growth Valuable Networking Opportunities. See [link] (more).

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. ” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product. ROI studies were published. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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After “Retiring” at the Age of 40, My Wife, My ADHD & an Itch to Have an Impact on the World Sent Me Back to Work

Frank Addante

We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. I met an inspiring professor who ran the case development named Professional Noam Wasserman. Doing good is good business! I’m super excited about it! It’s going to take a village!

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