Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This section of your Venture Value Scorecard should summarize the important advances you have made recently in research and product development. Customers: A company’s only sustainable source of cash is sales, so you need to keep track of your business development efforts. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Right from the beginning, we also partnered with a young web development agency for development and technical consulting – they are now more than business partners, they are friends and part of the team. These articles are sorted into industries and categories. Any strategic partnerships? What inspired them to find it?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Those might be in categories that may not exist today. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net. Omkar Kulkarni: Good question.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. Those might be in categories that may not exist today. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net. Omkar Kulkarni: Good question.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Such playground friends serve to ensure the startup’s ongoing viability by providing resources, access to customers and technology and market validation. This manifested itself in a number of ways, including prospect lead sharing, joint marketing, sharing space at tradeshows and warm referrals to alliance members’ customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Everyone is a rock star developers, every company is crushing it and when they’re not crushing it they’re killing it. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact. You own how much?”

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

You have security wherever you go because you have become big entrepreneurs and are giving talks all over to up and coming entrepreneurs and app developers. Co-founder/developer: Chris Johnson, Computer Science PhD Candidate at MIT. Dream Diary is the app that people can category and color their dreams but cannot share.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Developing their business directly through partnerships with sports teams, Crowd Seats has the ability to get larger discounts on potentially unused ticket sales to provide value for the fans, teams, and venues. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Pretty much anything that goes into a business plan falls into one of these four categories: Opportunity : Every successful business exploits an opportunity. What is your plan for completing the development of your product and getting it ready to market? What types of business partnerships will you need to forge?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Back to Top « Customer Service.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. I am a business person, not a technologist. Lack of confidence? Camaraderie?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Christopher Brereton is one of the founders and lead guru of PictureHealing , a company that develops community, awareness and support through photo sharing on iPhones. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “ waterfall software development process. &# We all know that modern software companies run on the “ agile &# development process by having short release cycles and frequent communications. Most partnerships are exactly that – partnerships.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

Know the firm but also know the partnership So by now you have 50 names on a spreadsheet with 8–10 A’s, 8–10 B’s, 10–20 C’s and 10 D’s. Investment professionals tend to fall into the following categories: Not an investment partner. The investor is a customer and they have money to spend but only for a limited number of companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

But there’s a reason why Bravo dominates the unscripted category in the cable / satellite world. It turns out that once you attract an audience to your channel and your brand becomes known for producing a genre of content you have an unfair advantage in acquiring customers for other shows who naturally migrate from one show to the next.

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