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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. For example, I often cite the case of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer , who grew Microsoft together. Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics.

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8 Business Accountability Lapses And How To Recover

Startup Professionals Musings

Every investor can recite examples of passionate entrepreneurs who seek funding for a worthy cause, like feeding the hungry, without a real business case for who will pay. You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm.

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