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Technology Commercialization
Created 10 years ago in Product & Design / Lean Startup

Startups 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.
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Dragana Djuricic Mendel, MBA, MCS
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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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 new product development skills with IBM and Alcatel-Lucent where she was instrumental in successfully launching dozen of new software, IT and telecom solutions to the market. Education • Master in Business Administration (MBA), Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University • Master in Computer Science, North Carolina State University • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, graduated Summa Cum Laude
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