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7 Strategies To Create Your Own Market And Win Bigger

Startup Professionals Musings

Steve Jobs proved it with the iPhone, and Elon Musk can’t produce his electric cars fast enough to keep up with demand. Bold entrepreneurs now can credibly talk about entirely new markets, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), genetic modifications, and privatized space travel. Use social media and the media to build demand for change.

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8 Business Accountability Lapses And How To Recover

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well. Kodak , as an example, had made so much money on film that they were reluctant to believe in the digital trend, even though they had one of the first digital camera patents.

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Interview with Marcus Filipovich, Ocular Data Systems

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Judges, juries, defense, and prosecuters are now expecting and demanding video be produced in the courtroom. The company also received a seed round from a private family office, and most recently, we concluded a bridge funding round with the Pasadena Angels and the Pasadena Angels Fund. It's really a big problem out there.

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

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BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. Thus, demand “Powered By” branding status to ensure that end-users will be exposed to your brand and alerted to the fact that your technology is a significant component of the BDC’s solution. Execute an Ambiguous Statement of Work.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI The iPad mini?

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

InfoChachkie

BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. Thus, demand “Powered By” branding status to ensure that end-users will be exposed to your brand and alerted to the fact that your technology is a significant component of the BDC’s solution. Execute an Ambiguous Statement of Work.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

We started with some fundamental assumptions -- it shouldn't demand a Sun Sparc CPU, it should be able to run on an off-the-shelf server, it needed to be scalable, and it should have no inherent gotchas that would limit it in any way to less than millions of users and tens of millions of calls per day.

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