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[Interview] Patrick Mackaronis, Director Of Business Development At Brabble

YoungUpstarts

Pat grew the business so successfully that by his senior year, he had moved the operations from his dorm room to an off-campus office, had a staff of 17 full- and part-time employees and over 100 business accounts. Again, you need to have a strong network, and if you don’t, you need to bring people on the team who have access to money.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut. The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core.

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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

Explain how you will retain your customers, whether through customer relationship management (CRM) applications, building network externalities, introducing ongoing value-added services, or other means. Operations Plan Goal of the operations plan: Present the action plan for executing on your company’s vision.

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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Thanks to Linn Atiyeh, Bemana ! #12-

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks. They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. As scientific as that. I called another agency. I encourage it.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. 16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to?

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).