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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

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Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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How Smart Startups Survive Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. Some entrepreneurs do very little to prepare for due diligence, assuming all the talking has already been done, and the business plan and results to-date tell the right story. Communicate what is happening and why to everyone.

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10 Tips On Due Diligence On Any Startup Funding Offer

Startup Professionals Musings

One would think that with all the sad stories and tools published over the past twenty years, this problem would be behind us. But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. Don’t count on ever passing due diligence, or even getting that deposit back. Marty Zwilling.

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Frameworks Round 6

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The wrk benchmark tool reports a peak of approximately 95 megabytes per second transfer rate with pipelining and 35 megabytes per second without. We caution all readers to review the source code of each test when interpreting the plaintext numbers. In particular, a great deal of effort was provided in reviewing the ASP.NET MVC tests.

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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. Some entrepreneurs do very little to prepare for due diligence, assuming all the talking has already been done, and the business plan and results to-date tell the right story. Communicate what is happening and why to everyone.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

Both Sides of the Table

But until recently we had not made these tools available to non-technical people – namely marketers who want to control their campaigns without necessarily wanting to call in the IT team to implement tools. So now even if you’re not technical you can get a little awe.sm , a solution targeted at businesses.

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Trello versus Asana

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Asana is a group collaboration tool. I knew Asana was getting rave reviews from friends but maybe there was something not quite working there for me. I wanted to double-down somewhere and roll out a collaboration tool more broadly at GRP. And here’s what I found: There is huge support for both tools. What to do?