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

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Having worked on technology licensing businesses, I have a good idea on how challenging those are from a sales cycle and cash flow perspective and, since Abhijit is still running a bootstrapped operation, I asked him about his strategy to manage the long sales cycle and the associated cash flow challenge.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

In the kelp beds off the coast of Southern California, one can find thousands of species of fish, but two of the most sought after by commercial fishermen are the California Halibut and the White Seabass. A good way to think about market segment is by thinking about fishing.

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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. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r. Taariq is also a 1M/1M premium member.

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Startup firms partnering with government? Really?

Austin Startup

Neither investors nor entrepreneurs like long sales cycles. Cities that are currently participating in the Startups in Residence program include the California cities of Oakland, San Leandro and San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Deals are cut and business is won much quicker in the private sector.

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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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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. There are other soft factors like sales cycle speed, marketing potential, competition, defensibility, and technology readiness level. Plants love it.