Meadow Creek News

Venture Capital and Start Ups

Venture Funding Up in 2011, But Down in Q4

Filed under Raising Capital, Venture Capital and Start Ups on January 21, 2012

PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association released their fourth quarter Money-Tree report on venture capital financing. Dow Jones Venture-Source also released their report on fourth quarter activity and both studies revealed similar…

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10 Reasons to Have a Plan

Filed under Small Business, Strategy, Venture Capital and Start Ups on January 18, 2012

If you were going on vacation, you would think through the following: Where do I want to go? Is it crowded? How am I going to get there? Can I…

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Facebook for Business – Social Media in Your Marketing Mix: Promotion

Filed under Business Management, Sales/Selling, Social Media, Venture Capital and Start Ups on January 14, 2012

Promotion is where the vast majority of change has taken place. The change in promotion is at least equal to the change brought on by the advent of printing, mail,…

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Facebook for Business – Social Media in Your Marketing Mix: Place

Filed under Marketing, Sales/Selling, Small Business, Social Media, Venture Capital and Start Ups on January 12, 2012

Place has most certainly changed and extraordinarily so. Marketing strategy decisions regarding Type/Location of Stores must now include a company website with e-commerce capability. There was once the dominance of…

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Facebook for Business – Social Media in Your Marketing Mix: Price

Filed under Marketing, Sales/Selling, Small Business, Social Media, Strategy, Venture Capital and Start Ups on January 11, 2012

Other than the obvious change in cost structure in some web-based distribution models, pricing fundamentals too, have not changed. Price is set to maximize profitability in concert with corporate strategy…

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Facebook for Business – Social Media in Your Marketing Mix: What has the Internet Changed?

Filed under Marketing, Sales/Selling, Small Business, Social Media, Strategy, Venture Capital and Start Ups on January 7, 2012

The internet has not changed the fundamentals of marketing. The internet has not created a new “silver bullet” of marketing, but introduced many new considerations and an enormous number of…

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Facebook for Business – Social Media in Your Marketing Mix: Issues for Small Business

Filed under Marketing, Small Business, Social Media, Strategy, Venture Capital and Start Ups on January 6, 2012

Small businesses rank their Marketing and Innovation lowest in a recent survey of the components of their competitive health. This is not surprising given the confusion generated by the proliferation…

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Tenant Talks Event at Meadow Creek

Filed under Business Management, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 8, 2011

Check out the events page for our next Tenant Talks event for Meadow Creek clients on our events page. Alesha Struthers, Attorney, will be presenting: “How to Hire Employees” RSVP…

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Gabel Named Director of Marketing for AMPS

Filed under Business Management, Marketing, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 3, 2011

Issaquah, Washington based American Mobile Power Systems (AMPS) is expanding its staff and has named Richard Gabel as Director of Marketing. At the same time AMPS also named Stephen Meldrum…

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Your Office and Personal Productivity

Filed under Office Space & Virtual Offices, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on October 5, 2011

A fellow came through to tour our facility last week. I was showing him an office and trying to get a read on where he wanted to be on price…

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