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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

One of the questions I’m most often asked by CEOs is how to hire sales people. I’ve also written extensively on sales and on which sales execs to hire and how to think about the different kinds of sales leaders. Call high, and get passed down or; B. We will have to build (or buy) technology in this area.”

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

Both Sides of the Table

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. What should not be in your deck? Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?—?it’s

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors

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Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Technology. Think Glendale.

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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the hardest things to know when you’re new to fund raising is what you’re supposed to send to an investor, when and will they keep your information confidential. That way your VC meeting becomes a sales lead AND the VC can get input from a trusted source (a portfolio company) without having to immediately commit more time.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

socalTECH

We're a big data company, where we look at all the information available worldwide, including documents, job postings, and anything you can publicly get your hands on, and from that, we distill the technology stack of a company. We distill that information with very high accuracy. That was a $250M line of business when I left.

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20 Best Free and Paid Tools for Startups in 2023

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In this guide: Free Business Tools Best Communication Tools Best Cybersecurity Tools Best Project Management Tools Best Marketing Tools Best Financial Tools Best HR tools Best Sales Tools Next Steps: Moving Forward With a Solution Best Free Business Tools for Startups Not every startup will have a budget for smart software.

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Interview with Thomas Russell, ETC Solar, Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

socalTECH

We're finalizing our first two sales contracts with two of the big players in the solar cell field for a first demonstration, and which gets revenue in. That also is a strength for us, because it's very hard to reverse engineer, and you have a very strong IP portfolio. How far along are you in bringing this to market?

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