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8 Keys To Building And Nurturing Trusted Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle in a corporate environment often can’t wait to start their own company, only to find that relationships are even more critical and volatile there. Don’t wait for the right people in business to find you – developers, investors, partners, or key customers. Start practicing it today wherever you are.

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8 Personal Strategies For Winning With Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle in a corporate environment often can’t wait to start their own company, only to find that relationships are even more critical and volatile there. Don’t wait for the right people in business to find you – developers, investors, partners, or key customers. Start practicing it today wherever you are.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

socalTECH

Damir Davidovic: We started working with government agencies in the area awhile back. New products we've launched include performance, onboarding, and backend HR functionality. We expect much larger growth in the next three years than we saw in the past, because we have lots more products to sell.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers. Sales people often blame the product.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

socalTECH

The company started here in 2002, and we were basically an agency. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that.

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It Pays To Maintain Trusted Relationships In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle in a corporate environment often can’t wait to start their own company, only to find that relationships are even more critical and volatile there. Don’t wait for the right people in business to find you – developers, investors, partners, or key customers. Start practicing it today wherever you are.