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Dragana Djuricic Mendel, MBA, MCS technology commercialization; business growth path
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Dragana Mendel, a management consultant and a founder of ANAGARD, LLC, works with startups to develop their technology commercialization pathway, and with small business owners to develop their growth strategy. First and foremost, she actively listens her clients in order to understand their company’s mission, vision and long-term objectives. With intimate understanding of client’s corporate culture, she then recommends the best solution to their most pressing pain points.
Prior to founding ANAGARD, LLC, Dragana has been in charge of corporate and business development for a number of emerging growth high tech startups (renewable fuels, renewable chemicals, LED lighting, small wind turbines, digital signal processing). For over 15 years, she honed her…
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Entrepreneurship
Raising Venture Capital
Startup Consulting
Product Management
Market Research
Strategic Planning
Business Strategy
Business Growth
Technical Product Management
Value Proposition
Member since July 2014
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$2.92/min per minuteNew ArrivalBusiness PlanDragana Djuricic Mendel, MBA, MCS • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaCreated 11 years ago in Business / Getting StartedWe provide management expertise to our clients as we develop corporate strategy and financially viable business model for their technology. A written business plan document captures: unique value proposition for client’s product/service, portfolio, comprehensive market research for the target customer, competition, strategy and implementation, financial plan.Dragana Djuricic Mendel, MBA, MCS Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaNew Arrival
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$2.92/min per minuteNew ArrivalInvestor-Ready ConsultingDragana Djuricic Mendel, MBA, MCS • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaCreated 10 years ago in Funding / Venture CapitalCompanies seeking funding from external investors, such as venture capitalists, face an uphill, time consuming battle, particularly if they are located outside of hotbed of private equity industry, Silicon Valley and New York/Boston area. We can reduce the time CEO startups spent courting investors by ensuring the company is “investor-ready” before they reach out at start setting up meeting with investors. We have seen hundreds of investors’ pitches, worked with number of entrepreneurs to improve their pitch and secure funding, and we maintain confidential relationship with regional angel investors and venture capitalists. We help our clients create: executive summary, teaser, pitch, business model, business plan.Dragana Djuricic Mendel, MBA, MCS Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaNew Arrival
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$2.92/min per minuteNew ArrivalTechnology CommercializationDragana Djuricic Mendel, MBA, MCS • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaCreated 10 years ago in Product & Design / Lean StartupStartups are creative and innovative; they often disrupt the market by commercializing new technology. Unfortunately, most new technologies die in the “Valley of Death” and never get commercialized. To cross this gap between prototypes and commercial products, we work closely with scientists, researches and engineers to find the best end customer for their platform technology. This task is not easy because we need to evaluate market attractiveness for a number of different segments before we can settle on the optimal product-market fit. Our clients use our technology-product-market fit report to include it into the grant proposals (SBIR, STTR) so they can dramatically increase probability of a win. They can also use the report to evaluate a business viability of their research before they decide to spin a company.Dragana Djuricic Mendel, MBA, MCS Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaNew Arrival
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Entrepreneurship
Raising Venture Capital
Startup Consulting
Product Management
Market Research
Strategic Planning
Business Strategy
Business Growth
Technical Product Management
Value Proposition