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6 Ways To Get Credible Data To Support A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. You need to find just enough information to quantify the real need out there for your product or service. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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6 Keys To Sizing Your Market For A New Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. You need to find just enough information to quantify the real need out there for your product or service. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Concentrate elsewhere on the near-term marketing activities (which are also expensive) for this round of funding. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). business entrepreneur funding marketing budget mission startup' Get exposure for your expertise.

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6 Market Research Sources That Fit A Limited Budget

Startup Professionals Musings

Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. You need to find just enough information to quantify the real need out there for your product or service. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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How Eusoh Wants To Fix Insurance With Technology, With Allen Kamrava

socalTECH

Insurance companies collect money from everybody to provide their service. However, they are paid a pretty large fee to act as a central middleman, to basically control those funds, and pay them out when the time is appropriate. The system runs checks to make sure the service providers and high quality, and which ones we have to audit.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. Deal of the week. Take bike share.

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Everything You Need to Know About Hyperloop

Tech.Co

Since 2013, when Elon Musk released his white paper for an emerging mode of transportation using low air pressure within a tube, companies around the world have answered the call to build the next generation of futuristic transportation. million in Series A financing from Sherpa Capital along with three other funds.

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