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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. In our last meeting you asked me about our cohorts and why retention went down. What do I do now? Your job is to break the convention.

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Virtual Data Room Cybersecurity is the Latest Business Opportunity

The Startup Magazine

M&A due diligence is the primary application of the VDR. Fundraising mandates involve lots of document and data sharing during due diligence investigation. VDR provides the necessary channel through which such companies can survive and launch careful IPO document management and retention. IP Management.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. They also observe who is pulling his or her weight and who is not.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

IP Location Tools. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. It makes you look like a religious zealot and a kind of high self-regarding anal retentive. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it takes no intelligence.

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