corporate-venturing 
InfoChachkie
APRIL 20, 2015
Rather than directly explaining their value proposition with all the passion and heartfelt stridency that only an entrepreneur can deliver, they outsource this communication to a Public Relations (PR) firm. Beyond PR, such roles include: Sales, Product Development, Strategic Planning and Fund Raising. The company started ‘getting ink.’
socalTECH
OCTOBER 20, 2011
It's a story you hear too many times: a venture or angel funded firm just can't figure out its business, runs low on cash, can't get another round of funding, and soon all that's left is a few chairs and servers. The original company found that getting IVR deployed was actually very hard. through Unified Dispatch LLC, a new company.
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InfoChachkie
MAY 19, 2011
As noted in parts I and II of this series, agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) can be alluring and potentially fatal. This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. Do Not Execute an Ambiguous Statement of Work.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
How do you take and create an entrepreneurial environment, within a big corporation? We sat down with Brian McCarthy , SVP of Dentistry.com (www.dentistry.com), a startup within a much larger company Futuredontics, which itself is a part of a big company called Sirona. What is Dentistry.com? They bought this business 4.5
socalTECH
MARCH 26, 2014
One of the biggest areas where the cloud is transforming business is in small and medium sized businesses--where suddenly, companies are able to leverage software which wouldn''t be available, or are too costly for them to implement individually, but where the cloud access suddenly makes it affordable and easy. How are you backed?
InfoChachkie
JULY 23, 2012
Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. companies should… focus on building amazing products. Chris is the CEO of Gnip , a Foundry Group portfolio company. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
The reality is that over 80 percent of new businesses will never attract venture capital or Angel funding, according to experts , and there are many good reasons for skipping that painful and distracting process. You can also use it acquire or merge with other companies for exponential growth.
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