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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.” In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# PR/Marketing. Start a blog.

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Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

Steve Blank

Marketing may be physically “staging&# the booth, and may even it “man it,&# but don’t be confused, this is the VP of Sales party. While the industry average says only 20% of show leads are followed up, that only happens in other companies, not yours. Go to trade shows like it matters.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). However after Sequoia and Ron Conway announced their investment in YC in 2009 , and after YC alumni DropBox and AirBnb raised capital on billion-dollar valuations in 2010-11, the program quickly became the gold standard among early-stage startup incubators.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

new features need to be rolled into PR strategies and competitor analyses. - He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Copyright © 2010 Both Sides of the Table. . - somebody needs to be sure that customer service is alerted to the new features and are trained in how to handle these functions with customers. -

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

He noted that Chris Dixon ( @cdixon ) of Hunch tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.&# We do have some feature tricks up our sleeve and an incredible ability to expand our model into adjacent businesses (you’ll see a lot of this from us in 2010).

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.