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5 Steps To Locking In The Right New Venture Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

This will facilitate the expansion of battery charging and support facilities, and ultimately create more customers and growth for the whole industry, including Tesla. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Not everything will work.

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6 Funding Resources For Ideas Needing More Validation

Startup Professionals Musings

If this is your first foray into the entrepreneurial arena, with no track record in business or technology, your best and perhaps only supporters will be that class of investors known in the trade as friends, family and fools (FFF). The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem.

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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Being open is the new business culture around the world.

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5 Strategies For Startup Partnering To Win Long Term

Startup Professionals Musings

This will facilitate the expansion of battery charging and support facilities, and ultimately create more customers and growth for the whole industry, including Tesla. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Not everything will work.

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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Being open is the new business culture around the world.

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6 Sources of Help For Early Stage Concept Exploration

Startup Professionals Musings

If this is your first foray into the entrepreneurial arena, with no track record in business or technology, your best and perhaps only supporters will be that class of investors known in the trade as friends, family and fools (FFF). The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem.

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10 Funding Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Skip

Startup Professionals Musings

Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath.