The definition of a sale is ‘the act of meeting prospective buyers and providing them with a product or service in turn of money or other required compensation’ [Wikipedia, 2007]. The sale is the practical implementation of marketing event and has a clearly defined cycle of events through salesmanship that involves, to a larger extent, attributes in selling. Those attributes involve empathy, ego drive and strength.
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Today I had the privilege to attend the Utah Technology Council (UTC) CEO P2P forum where the topic of discussion was “The Smartest Things I Ever Did”.
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What you think you know and what you realize you don't know when you step into entrepreneurship. A transition from academia to small business and the inevitable cultural changes.
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The process of competing for and winning a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant is an undertaking that requires a serious committment in planning and execution. The following describes the process of planning, writing, submitting and finally, obtaining an SBIR award.
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The weekend of October 6 I was invited to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Conference and Exhibition. This conference was held in the lovely city of Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) and attended by close to 40,000 pediatricians, pediatric specialists and practitioners and device manufacturers and vendors.
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Providing clinicians and basic scientists with knowledge representation tools built on the need to visually identify and label features on an image and add expert knowledge for collaboration and sharing will improve the process of clinical and scientific discoveries.
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I had this idea: I wanted to start a company. The simple assumption that one needed a 'company' to sell services and later products, an entity or shell that represents the collection of individuals that provide the services...a company.
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