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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself, “What’s Plan B? If you’re running a startup or small business, your first priority (after your family) is keeping your employees and customers safe. “Winter is coming.”. And what’s in my lifeboat?”.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

After Goldman, ran startup Gadgetoff, which brought together inventors and entrepreneurs. Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. Introductory remarks.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

When you have local Fortune 1000 IT execs who are looking to buy innovative technology combined with NYC enterprise startups and west coast VCs and founders building a presence here, you get an amazing recipe for a killer 2017. Enterprise companies get more comfortable purchasing from startups. and we expect this trend to continue.

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