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Primary Problems with Enforcing Non-Compete Agreements

YoungUpstarts

Businesses often require employees to sign non-compete agreements to protect their business interests. However, just because an employee has signed a non-compete agreement does not make the agreement valid under the law. Non-Compete Time Period. Many companies get their sales leads from public sources.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Our average delivery times to California are 50% faster than Amazon. Something so special, it stands out against everyone you compete with. Stretch your imagination and it is not hard to come up with some super-clever nudges that incorporate aggregate non-PII information that is public. You catch my drift. Add to Basket!

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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The Danger of Crocodile Sales

Both Sides of the Table

I love working with Aussies because their outlook on life seems very similar to what I grew up with in California. Pretty laid back and non-hierarchic. I’d like to talk about Crocodile Salesmen in 3 scenarios: 1) when YOU are selling (or someone on your team), 2) when you are trying to recruit a sales person.

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How to Open a Marijuana Dispensary

Up and Running

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. If you’re in California, he also recommends reading Proposition 215 and Proposition 420.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

thenextweb.com

4 Reach out to complimentary (not competing) startups. Paring with similar, but non-competing companies makes cross promotion easy and mutually beneficial. In California? Apples first weekend iPhone 4S sales surpass 4 million. By the way, if you want alpha access to Shelby, click here , shhhh!). #4

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Vistage

Growthink Blog

This past week, I had the pleasure and honor to present to John Morris'' Woodland Hills, California Vistage Group. And, as they do, collect massive reams of data on much of the marketing, sales, operations, finance and management activities of a business.