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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

InfoChachkie

Lesson: As described in Go For The Quick Buck , wily startups also devise creative ways to secure funding from their customers, rather than from investors. The working class grammar of these light-hearted phrases underscored that the band was not taking itself too seriously. Any time will do."

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. But, I found out in reality, it's really tough to find classes or lessons, for a variety of issues. I literally saw the real pain point when I moved to Los Angeles a few years ago.

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Steve Blank Discusses: The Ideal Venture Capitalist

InfoChachkie

Most of them pick it up fairly quickly… but some of them spend their whole careers never understanding what business they are in and think of it as a financial asset class.”. As an operating executive, I developed deep understanding of the strategic and tactical drivers of success in the worlds of robotics, medical devices, SaaS and Ad-tech.

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The most important person on the startup team

Berkonomics

This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO. And that it is the critical piece which ultimately (if things work out) gets the big bucks.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. He isn’t personally driven by making a quick buck and I’ve seen him go out of his way to help entrepreneurs. Sounds obvious.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

Xconomy

If you want fireworks this weekend, you can either celebrate the 4th of July or watch the latest post-Brexit political developments in Britain. PureTech also bucked the Brexit fallout this week. Niraparib is a PARP inhibitor, a drug class that has rebounded after some setbacks. This week, UPenn revealed more details.

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The Customer May Not Always Be Right, But You Had Better Listen Just The Same

Tech Zulu Event

The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. Both companies were spending big bucks to advertise yet the offer left me cold and I must not be alone in this as both companies have slumping sales. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down.