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Why not share your liquidity success with those who got you there?

Berkonomics

If there have never been outside investors to organize such an option program, many CEOs never get around to creating a system for rewarding employees in a sale. Those that pay off handsomely (congratulations if so), those marginal exits that selvage technology, brand and jobs – better than nothing. And a lack of plans for others.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

Warby Parker produces modern eyewear at affordable prices, Apple produces elegant, premium technology products, Netflix offers an enormous library of binge-worthy, unique video. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Get Physical!

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In Los Angeles, the Women’s March embraces technology to organize and inspire

TechCrunch LA

The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement.

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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

If you don’t have a good sales methodology already in place in your organization you might try reading that last link. Calling high means reaching the highest level appropriate person in an organization that you can reach to hear your pitch. In a small to mid-sized organization this is likely the CEO or perhaps a COO or SVP.

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5 Current Technologies Still Have Room For Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Although I’m not an aficionado of checklists in general, I really appreciate one he has included for keeping up with some of the latest technological trends that are reshaping business strategies, which should be the driver for startups to fill in the gaps. Are you driving the technology, or is it driving you? Cloud Computing.

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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

Both Sides of the Table

While I have some sympathy with not investing too heavily in sales people until the product has properly been tested and commercialized in the enterprise environment, in the end it’s a fact that it takes sales people to move product through large organizations. These are the lifeblood of your sales organization.

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How To Identify New Venture Assistance Organizations

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy.