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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners. So often exclusivity on mega deals is of huge importance to your potential customers or business development partners.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. There are many analogies here for software development. I study it every day.&#.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Cost Per Click (CPC) or Download (CPD) – As the name implies, advertisers pay only for clicks on its advertisements or when a user downloads its software, case study or whitepaper. For instance, it does not make sense to develop an Affiliate Market presence until you have established an effective SEM campaign.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Scale your funding requests to the value of your startup today, consisting of assets, contracts, and intellectual property you currently own.

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