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20 Best Biographies For Tech-Minded Students

YoungUpstarts

.” Chances are good that now, more than ever before, the stories of the men and women who paved the way for today’s technology, and the people who are now exploiting those works in new and fascinating ways, will appeal to more than just students who are early adopters. Nothing is more high-tech than NASA. Farnsworth.

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Technology Attacks the Venerable Business Card

Startup Professionals Musings

The result is we can’t find that key name and phone number quickly when we really need them. Here’s the latest technology. For individual entrepreneurs, it’s a high-end alternative (entry $5+/month), and it’s definitely a candidate for your business sales force. The solution is simple to define. This is great and it’s free!

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

To understand what Social CRM is, let us first consider this definition by Metz: The customer owns the conversation now, so companies need to change the way they do business. 5) Embracing social advertising and retail , as well as the exciting opportunities offered by mobile and geo-location technologies.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We chose the name Island because we want to encourage our consumers to kick back and take in the simple joy cannabis brings. 1- From our daughter.

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7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches & How to Fix Them

View from Seed

Backup paper copies if the on-screen presentation fails are a bit low-tech but work almost as well. Spending too much time on introductions, small talk, and the name-game detracts from the opportunity to convey the primary message. Mistake #5: Attempting to force definitive feedback immediately. Mistake #7: Inauthenticity.

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Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

I have never felt prouder of the team & product at awe.sm ( please visit to check out our latest & be ready for our next big product announcement due out in next month or so) and yet we just brought in a new CEO to the company, Fred McIntyre. ” We had inbound M&A requests from some of the biggest names in tech.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans through a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. By definition an MVP (minimum viable product) means there’s room for improvement.

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