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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Talented product developers. If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

Software Developer. Web Developer. Learn to properly prepare, position, research, value and negotiate for optimal price and structure at Selling Up, Selling Out, a half-day executive seminar for software and IT firm owners, investors and executives. IT staffing, consulting and software development services.

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Presently, I’m focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. Today, he spends the majority of his professional time on new business development.