Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

All this is to say that trends in education and edtech—and especially how education applies to the business of high tech—has long been something our editors have focused on. One, by Jeff Engel, is about the Massachusetts edtech cluster ; it includes a table of companies that help represent the local scene.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This morning's contribution is from Krisztina 'Z' Holly host of the The Art of Manufacturing podcast and founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), which supports connecting local manufacturers and high tech companies. What was the big news for your company this year? We blew an important milestone out of the water this year!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We need to make sure our young kids have public schooling that trains them for the information economy. We have a responsibility to give back. Mr. Perkins. Yes, I earned it.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

You can’t help thinking that there must be some set of technologies, or some method of thinking, that could be adapted from the fecund world of technology and startups to heal and support societies as they find a way back to a semblance of peace and (hopefully more equitable) prosperity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Perhaps a simpler way to think about culture is to think of it in terms of how an organization makes choices, how it develops its values, its ethics, how it trains, recognizes and rewards its associates, its spirit, and not to be overlooked, how it treats its customers - both internal and external. Employee turnover is extraordinary low.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

But what chapped my hide was that every early assignment at Accenture they divided teams, training and assignments into “technical” and “non technical.” I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube. Can you explain that process?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

As described in Advice For Emerging Entrepreneurs , let the BDC train you and grant you opportunities to make mistakes on their time, on their dime. When high-tech businesses, founded by appropriately educated entrepreneurs who received money from sophisticated investors are considered, the survival rates are even more encouraging.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

Eysenback for the Journal of Medical Internet Research ) “The high tech industry is a strong supporter of eHealth initiatives such as ePrescribing that lower healthcare costs and improve the safety and delivery of care,” said Matthew Kazmierczak, Vice President, Research and Industry Analysis, AeA.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

It proposes to strengthen science education and research, improve technological expertise, attract the world's best and brightest, and provide 21st century job training. One, "Math Now and Advanced Placement" involves better teacher training. What it will definitely do is fill the coffers of U.S. Other parts of the ACI touch on this.

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