Colin Hurd Agriculture Business and Technology Expertise

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  Agriculture Equipment Business Development

  Colin Hurd • Ames, IA

  Created 8 years ago in Business / Getting Started

  Have have over 10 years of experience in the agriculture equipment industry. I can advise on sales strategies I used to introduce a new product into the market and reach total sales of $1.5 Million within 2 years. I can also provide you access to a wide range of contacts I have in the industry from sales, technology, manufacturing, equipment dealers, and OEM's.
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  Intellectual Property, Patents, Licensing, Royalties.

  Colin Hurd • Ames, IA

  Created 8 years ago in Business / Getting Started

  I can provide detailed knowledge and first hand experience from a founder's and business owner's perspective of patents, trademarks, licensing deals, royalties, innovative joint IP development contracts, and the multi-year process you can expect and budget for. I am not an attorney so will not provide legal advice. I wish someone other than an attorney would have given me straight shooting easy to understand business advice regarding what to expect years ago when I filed my first Patent and signed my first licensing deal. I can also give some general ideas of best practices from a business strategy standpoint when it comes to IP and proprietary ideas.
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  How to Actually Start and Grow a Company (No Generic BS)

  Colin Hurd • Ames, IA

  Created 8 years ago

  I founded and exited 2 startups in 8 years so I know every challenge you face regarding starting a business from scratch and will not give you general non-specific advise. For example, are you hiring your first employee and want to have a list of everything you need to do to be prepared and how to do it? Grab a pen and give me a call. If you have have not idea on how to start a website or where to look for marketing help. I can give you a detailed list of steps to follow. Never managed engineers or software developers and want to know how to not screw it up? I can give you detailed experiences of where I did go wrong and how we changed it. Need a list of essential tools every startup should use or have? I will show you everything you need to get going. All of the resources and advice I will give are from first hand experiences not from research I have done or things I have heard from others. Most of my experiences began after struggling through tons of advise and opinions from people who did not know enough about actually running a start-up.
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  Agriculture, Food Production, Agronomy, Farming, Equipment, Investing

  Colin Hurd • Ames, IA

  Created 8 years ago in Industries / Other

  Over the course of the last 5 years I have developed and grown several agriculture companies which touched all aspects of the Ag industry. I have an extensive network of expertise and a lot of first hand knowledge. If you are in the Ag space and need contacts or advice I can help or put you in touch with people you can. If you are seeking capital for an agriculture related company I can also help. Lastly if you need to talk to Midwest farmers or service providers regarding a product or idea I can put you in touch with the appropriate people.
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