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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” In particular, Brad was impressed that, “Trada…educated people on how SEM works…and they were incredibly inclusive.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Trust me – that kind of encounter can mean the difference between securing a contract, protecting yourself from getting turfed or getting acquired one day. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. Rob does it.

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The 4 Partners Early-Stage Startups Need

Tech Zulu Event

I often write about the best strategies for startup fundraising or how to manage startup financing and optimize for growth. To make sure your IP is protected — As I’ve written before, failing to develop an IP strategy, including a plan for protecting your IP as well as avoiding unwitting infringements of someone else’s, is a huge mistake.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. So now the question is how to educate kids about it. So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

On the flip-side, Assignmint is a tool for editors, which we are in the process of developing right now. I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. It’s growing. It’s horrible.

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