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10 Funding Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Skip

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Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies is a very difficult task. That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. Usually the reason the big companies are no threat is that the market is too small. We have the first-mover advantage.”

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He has served on advisory committees for Microsoft, IBM, Novell, and Cisco. Through Tech Coast Angels, he has screened in excess of four hundred start-up companies. He also has product strategy and business development experience in the areas of video-on-demand services and RF CMOS components.

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Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies is a very difficult task. That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. Usually the reason the big companies are no threat is that the market is too small. We have the first-mover advantage.”

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