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Can you defend your pricing niche against your competition?

Berkonomics

This week, we continue our series on marketing and positioning. There can be nothing more important in your business planning that selecting the proper pricing niche, making your story clear using that niche, and the defending your position against the competition. There are exceptions, based upon cost of sales.

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What’s the minimum information to give your investors?

Berkonomics

Others worry that we will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements. Email readers, continue here…] Prepare for your annual meetings well. The minimum legal requirements.

Class 120
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How much information do you give to investors?

Berkonomics

Others worry that investors will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements. Email readers, continue here.]

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The most important person on the startup team

Berkonomics

Perhaps surprisingly, the components are NOT the traditional coding/business pieces; nor are they even coding /user interface / business / sales, or whatever. The basic concept has to make some kind of sense given the technical, market and competitive environment, otherwise nothing else matters.

Startup 189
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Interview with Sam Teller, LaunchpadLA

socalTECH

For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. We're really excited for the next steps.

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Interview: Paige Craig, CEO BetterWorks

InfoChachkie

We see two markets. 3) I’ve heard some great stories about your weekend sales “boot camps.” We hired people who did not have outside sales experience. And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. Hacker Downside.

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