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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

” It helps to have seen the way down twice before to know many of the signs. You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.”

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OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011

Tech Coast Venture Network

The caliber of the organizations and individuals participating with TCVN in this inaugural summit speaks volumes as to what I believe we will achieve,” commented TCVN Chairman Ciaran Foley. Historically, industry organizations such as the AeA formed to champion the interests of their early-stage members. About TCVN.

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Startup 360-Performance Review Result – Improved Time Management - Finding Founder Time

InfoChachkie

Following the 360-review, we devised an effective way to help the Founders expand their strategic effectiveness while ensuring that all of their prior responsibilities are appropriately fulfilled. . A Good Plan. “A A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”.

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7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t matter how dedicated and capable you are, there are only so many hours in a day, and as your business scales, you need to count on others for help. When the plan is all in your head, and elements are undefined, it’s important to monitor every step of the progress, in order to make quick corrections. It’s a big change.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. Tags: Entrepreneur Strategic Planning The Fringe.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Did he want to see whether a strategic buyers made sense in the next couple of years? Invoca is the market leader in a hot and growing category: marketing automation for telephony driven by the explosion in smart phones where a phone call is a single click of a button.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

There are many potentially useful consumer and business applications that can be created on the intersection of social and location (at hoc meeting organization app, delivery ETA tracking, etc.) , and with a few more fundamentals in place we’ll start seeing more meaningful integration with social media.

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