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10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

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How Great Entrepreneurs Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Training and coaching. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership. Value creation. Idea management. Observe and measure.

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10 Keys To Surviving From A Startup To An Enterprise

Startup Professionals Musings

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Both Sides of the Table

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. So we went ahead.

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10 Keys To Evolution From A Startup To An Enterprise

Startup Professionals Musings

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

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10 Steps To Scaling Your Startup Toward A Fortune 500

Startup Professionals Musings

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

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The Next Business Stage Requires Aggressive Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

Sales 96