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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

But it’s not a reality in business. So please see this post through that lens – at some point when you deal with larger companies: enterprise buyers, biz dev partners, VCs or one day acquiring companies – you’ll like encounter these negotiation issues. Your IT Reviewer. Biv Dev teams?

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

Running a small business can come with a slew of challenges. That’s why small business owners need to address these factors in order to implement a contingency plan and establish ways to move forward with minimal repercussions. Conduct a post-action review. Assess both the short- and long-term financial impact.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Image credits: Flickr, goincase.

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Digital Services Your Business Needs To Consider

YoungUpstarts

Great product exposure and a sales team dedicated to improving the lives of your customer base act as the face of your company. In order to truly find success this must be matched by a development team that consistently strives to deliver truly life-bettering products and services that customers keep coming back for.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

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The Essential Guide to Corporate Knowledge Management for Small Business Owners

Up and Running

Many small business owners bank on their experience. Without a proper system to define and harness this knowledge, companies simply lose it instead of using it to reach their business goals. Assess effectiveness. Not all of the experience that a person or a team believes is important will be useful to a company.

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Top 9 Best CRMs for Small Businesses in 2019

crowdSPRING Blog

While there are hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of CRM solutions, not all are alike and not all are created with small businesses and startups in mind. How can you choose the best CRM for your small business? CRMs never forget and provide valuable statistics for predicting cash flow and future business.