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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. And that is what we’ll do.”

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7 Goodwill Factors Will Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

They look at your track record, industry leadership, marketing energy, moral values, and peer relationships. To maximize this value, start now in taking a visible and active role in your industry and community. Quality of your technical and business teams. Proprietary technology with a high barrier to entry.

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership.

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10 Goodwill Elements To Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership.

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7 Keys To Making A Business Out Of Your Great Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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10 Tips On Self-Promotion To Solidify Your Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Take the initiative to communicate effectively to key players how you contributed to results, without emotion, while giving full credit to others as appropriate. Technical skills are important, but your ability to build and nurture relationships with others is more important for leadership growth and career advancement today.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Here’s why.

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