socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

According to reports, Fisker has laid off 26 employees in Delaware, and 45 in California, after failing to meet DOE deadlines for its production goals. Fisker has been scaling back sales projections for its Karma luxury sports car, after a series of recalls and other issues in getting the car to market. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash. Fluctuating sales means more inventory is required to cover the ups and downs. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. Sales volumes are still ramping up while marketing expenses are at max.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2016

Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash. Fluctuating sales means more inventory is required to cover the ups and downs. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. Sales volumes are still ramping up while marketing expenses are at max.

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Startup Sales Layoffs Slides 64

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly. So, how is it you ended up going from a technology infrastructure entrepreneur at SkyPipeline, to the consumer market with Visalus? I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. They are not the generalists required for new product startups. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. They are not the generalists required for new product startups. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

” —Company funding news: Tesaro (NASDAQ: TSRO ) of Waltham, MA, said it took advantage of positive Phase 3 data to raise $409 million in a secondary stock sale…Protagonist Therapeutics, based in Milpitas, CA, has filed for a $75 million initial public offering. million in funding, according to a regulatory filing. .

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Traded on the London Stock Exchange, its shares held steady while the market went haywire, then climbed all week through Thursday’s close.

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