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ConTraps Part III – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration. Get The Cheese With Your Neck Intact.

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6 Ways To Win By Creative Partnering With Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a chance. It provided an industry-leading graphic development interface, but was not so strong on modeling and simulation. As a result, we shared in capturing a new high-end market, without major new marketing or development.

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6 Marketing Accelerators For Boosting Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. Of course, you can’t possibly brand yourself if you don’t know who you really are.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

A large, wireless carrier (AT&T) was willing to break it’s traditional rules in order to get access to innovation that it believed (correctly) would help it to sell more contracts and win more market share against its primary competitor (Verizon). Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

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Can you overcome five risks and create wealth?

Berkonomics

Of course, we are speaking of increased valuation of your company when we speak of “wealth.” And fifth: Competitive risk. . Especially if you are in the early stage of growing a business, these five risks can and often do derail entrepreneurs before realizing the riches of a great exit. So, let’s examine them and mitigate them.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Sales people will often blame your pricing. They lost the deal because your competitors dropped price. Customers seldom buy on price. Sure, you need to be competitive on price.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change.

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