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7 Key Startup Activities Where Follow-Up Is Critical

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale. Product development.

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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

TechCrunch LA

The firm, which underwent a significant restructuring over the last two years, went on an investment tear over the course of 2019 as new partners went out to build up a new portfolio for the firm — almost of a whole cloth. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund.

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Conforming To Your Customers’ Realities: Your Stakeholders’ Perceptions Are Your Reality

InfoChachkie

Pioneered nonlinear playback and search capabilities, commonly used in DVD technology. Due to the number of contributors to the PC’s evolution, some of the above “firsts” could be reasonably argued. In reality, Gary Kildall was present when IBM came knocking during July of 1980. Established basis for PC local-area networks.

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Top Entrepreneurs Have Follow-up, Not Ideas Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale. Product development.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. They are the lifeblood of many companies yet they are different than the traditional technology startup DNA so the ways that you hire, motivate, compensate and assess performance of these individuals will be different. Of course that’s not true.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].