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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? If so, are specific software development processes necessary? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? If so, are specific software development processes necessary? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service?

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain The Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Educators are looking for tools and programs to help facilitate their transition into this new learning environment, making affordable to free software key to this niche industry. However, to succeed with people who aren’t trained engineers, RPA software tools must be intuitive and easy to use. Thanks to Kurt Bodenstedt, PDAFL LLC ! #3-

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here.

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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

Both Sides of the Table

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Pay to play.

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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

Nobody will be immune because in a bull market executives are paid to “innovate” so they sign software contracts and run projects. It takes time to sell in your software, get it implemented, prove the value, build a business case, gain executive support and then roll it out more broadly. What Do You Need to Prove to Raise an A Round?

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Founder Interview: Felix Shipkevich and the Disruption in LegalTech

The Startup Magazine

Consumers rely on search engines and pay-to-play rating sites to find legal counsel. Existing tools in the legal marketing services space have primarily focused on attorney case management software and e-discovery tools. (Share with us what problem you’re solving).

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