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5 Unfair Advantages To Help You Succeed In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. In the business world, your ability to raise money is often paramount to your success. Book smarts represent your current depth of understanding of technology and business concepts.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

socalTECH

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services? What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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13 Red Flags To Avoid In Your Investor Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Terms “paradigm shift” or “disruptive technology” used more than once. In reality, fundamental changes in technology frighten away more customers than they attract, and take longer and more money to come to fruition than any investors wants to commit. These terms are so overused as hype that any meaning has been lost.

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Create An Industry Alliance Entrepreneurs: Need Friends On The Startup Playground

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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Our submission technology is what powers Scripped.com, who you interviewed earlier. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. We are trying to keep it competitive. People can write comments and rate publishers, which we vet very carefully.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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What do you think will take Southern California''s technology community to the next level? I think we have lots of great companies, lots of technology, we''re producing more engineers, and we''re seeing companies go from B-to-C and relatively low tech, to deeper technology companies and companies with more differentiation.