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7 Barriers To Communication In Business Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Pick the right time and place for each message type, to maximize attention and retention. The solution is to work on relationships first, before attempting persuasive communication.

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7 Common Causes Of Failure To Communicate in Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Pick the right time and place for each message type, to maximize attention and retention. The solution is to work on relationships first, before attempting persuasive communication.

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7 Ways A Business Message Gets Lost In The Process

Startup Professionals Musings

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Pick the right time and place for each message type, to maximize attention and retention. The solution is to work on relationships first, before attempting persuasive communication.

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7 Barriers To Understanding Your Mentor Communication

Startup Professionals Musings

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Pick the right time and place for each message type, to maximize attention and retention. The solution is to work on relationships first, before attempting persuasive communication.

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Entrepreneurs Face Serious Communication Barriers

Startup Professionals Musings

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Pick the right time and place for each message type, to maximize attention and retention. The solution is to work on relationships first, before attempting persuasive communication.

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

Mucker Lab

In fact, in the 70’s and 80’s, the distinction was almost entirely semantic, as the military and aerospace industry invested ungodly amounts of capital to create technology breakthroughs that eventually saw wide commercial adoption in the personal computing industry. That number in the Valley might be closer to 10%.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

Other non-semantic variables are important as well. A well-named site can thus easily rank 10-20% higher than a poorly named one on a purely non-semantic basis. Names with homophones will cause needless confusion. The best names tend to be short, to use dictionary words, to be devoid of hyphens, and/or to include a numeral.

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