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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. I'm hoping that other people can chime in on this: Where do you find opportunities as a product manager?

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What Do You and Elon Musk Have in Common?

Growthink Blog

This statistic is probably not surprising to any business person with first hand experience of workers' comp, especially in ”pro-labor” states like New York and California. Odds are very long that any of our businesses will grow to their size and impact but.if

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

[Up until then] the capstone class – meaning the best class you could take for being an entrepreneur in a university – was how to write a business plan. Yet we all [anyone teaching who actually had founded a company] knew that in all honesty no business plan survives first contact with customers.

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Be Like Ray Kroc? Or Not?

Growthink Blog

Kroc’s curiosity was so piqued that he got in his car and drove 2,000 miles from his Illinois home to Southern California to see for himself how they were doing it. They quickly struck a deal for Kroc to be the company's first director of franchising.

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The Greatest Sales Job of All Time

Growthink Blog

Now, in Southern California by late June most little leaguers have been playing and practicing baseball for more than five months. In fact, it is incredibly easy to gain competitive advantage in business with just a little hype and mojo because so few of us do it!

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My story: Fail locally, one customer at a time.

Berkonomics

Prior to bombing out of corporate life, I worked as a management consultant and at a very early age I was dealing with the presidents of very large companies. Who would’ve guessed that a day would come when a major Wall Street firm would make a strategic decision to open high profile offices across Southern California?

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

In this guide, I’m going to walk you through how to start a farm, as well as give you the resources to help you get started with a farming business today. The state of small farm business in the U.S.A. You would then have been able to choose to grow another product that was in demand, or start your farm in Southern California.