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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well?

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Closure

Steve Blank

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. As one could imagine this was the last thing the supercomputer center management wanted to hear.

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Lack Management Support or Buy-in? Embarrass Them!

Occam's Razor

" Our Senior Management won't let us do that." " Or sometimes " My manager simply does not get it / Analytics / Web / Me / Anything." It is just that we are too low on the totem pole or that our management is ignorant / opinionated / close minded / other things. We have tried but failed.

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Rocket Science 5: Who Needs Domain Experts

Steve Blank

However the VC’s are managing a portfolio while you, the entrepreneur are managing one company – yours. Reply Cognitive Biases, Positive Black Swan Events and Startups | Market By Numbers | San Diego | Marketing Help , on January 3, 2010 at 9:13 am Said: [.] The mistake is assuming you are a Black [.]