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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close. Now, the other wonderful feature in Stanzr is that all these conversations are shared across social media platforms - Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook.

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Startup firms partnering with government? Really?

Austin Startup

The media loves to write about them and economic development organizations try to attract them because of the jobs they create. Neither investors nor entrepreneurs like long sales cycles. By Mary Scott Nabers | 10/30/2017 Startup companies of all types are hot topics today. There are numerous examples of success.

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Beware The Consultant

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To fully appreciate why consultants often do not fulfill a startup’s needs, it is important to understand the typical consulting engagement sales cycle. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbaras Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. Pyramid Power. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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