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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

Defensible IP When I’m asked by newer, younger VC partners for advice on our sector, one of the things I always emphasize is looking for companies who have built defensible intellectual property (IP). Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly Over the past 2.5 particularly as you achieve scale.

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18 Entrepreneurs Share Why They Started Their Own Business

Hearpreneur

9- To promote educational programs Photo Credit: Nural Seker I started my business with the intention of filling the gaps in initial teacher education courses. 16- To promote neuroscience-based programs Photo Credit: Stephanie Caldow In my late teens, I suffered from chronic pain & concerns about my mental health.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

Stock option top-ups after a few years are vital retention mechanisms. Who is leading your patent filing program? Legal threats from other IP holders? than to have to deal with healthcare benefit options, vacation policies, health-and-safety regulations and so forth. Yet being a buttoned up company requires all this.

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19 Entrepreneurs Share Why They Started Their Own Business

Hearpreneur

Drawing from my experiences teaching high school students for 18 years, there is so much more that new teachers need to know that just isn’t being taught in our current initial teacher education programs. From behavior management, and having difficult conversations to the workings of the mind and links to students’ effort and achievement.

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention. Each salesperson elevated their top 10 accounts to receive highly customized one-to-one account-based marketing programs. This is used for landing new accounts that may eventually be used in Strategic ABM or ABM Lite programs.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. From time immemorial, or at least since programming became a profession, the creation of software has been a magical journey. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas.

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

Being able to staff your customer service team to respond quickly to customers, often directly on these social channels, will increase retention and repeat purchasing and also serve to drown out negative feedback. Have you instituted a referral program? Have you instituted a gifting program? Will you ship internationally?