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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Spencer Price: That's a fair question. Spencer Price: It's a bit of a circuitous route. What is Halla?

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Great Entrepreneurs are Masters of Business Chaos

Startup Professionals Musings

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. Employees stop innovating.

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Can Your Startup Flourish Despite Business Chaos?

Startup Professionals Musings

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. Employees stop innovating.

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Entrepreneurs Who Fear Chaos Risk An Early Demise

Startup Professionals Musings

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. Employees stop innovating.

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Startups Must Grow or Die, Despite the Chaos

Startup Professionals Musings

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. Employees stop innovating.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

They can help you with pricing. What I used to do is pencil out my plans for the board deck and strategy topics and my CFO would then pull together the slides and analysis. Legal threats from other IP holders? They can show the projections on what this does to burn rate. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up? On and on and on.

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

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If you have beta customers, new pricing plans, different positioning, more market insights, good press coverage – whatever – these are all signs that the ball is moving forward. Because management is so important I always tell people to make the bio slide the first in your deck. What about Product / IP?

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