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Interview with Gary Bishop, Network Automation

socalTECH

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. You are self funded too, we recall.

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7 Key Startup Activities Where Follow-Up Is Critical

Startup Professionals Musings

Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Here are a few: Business networking. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Investor negotiations.

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Entreprenuer Network

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Top Entrepreneurs Have Follow-up, Not Ideas Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Here are a few: Business networking. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Investor negotiations.

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9 Key Issues That Can Support Your Breakthrough Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

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For Entrepreneurs, Success is Ideas With Follow-up

Startup Professionals Musings

Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Here are a few: Business networking. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Investor negotiations.

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5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

In the entrepreneur world, it’s still a popular misconception that the “idea” is everything. For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC. In a very real sense, we funded him, and he superseded even IBM. Build connections with key customers and competitors.

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