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

Startup Professionals Musings

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn

InfoChachkie

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. If we had stayed on the sidelines, waiting for less market uncertainty, we would have lost the opportunity to file the landmark medical robotic patents that eventually motivated Intuitive Surgical to purchase Computer Motion for approximately $150 million.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently? Hipstamatic iPhone App to Spawn a Million Terry Richardsons "Feisty" Steve Jobs Ponders a $40B Shopping Spree at Apple Shareholder Meeting ); We Shall Overcome.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Forms Augmenting the team can take various forms: Consulting – defining how to attack particular issues, possibly directly planning Coaching – advising on how to approach particular issues Manage – lead members Execute – take on specific activities Again, this is fairly fuzzy, but it comes down to having mutual expectations.