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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. What is Stealth?

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. What is Stealth?

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

www.entrepreneur.com

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups.

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VCs pivot, too… First Round Key Hire Wire becomes the Key People Wire and some thoughts on startup hiring

This is going to be BIG.

Early stage startups have that task many times over after they receive their first funding. It was their first product hire and it wasn't a job they had advertised widely for, so it never would up in our newsletter. Instead, the CTO there met someone amazing at SXSW who turned out to be a big fan (and customer) of the company.

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Digital Revenue Expert – Vince Thompson

SoCal CTO

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. Example here: [link]. Vince: I only take business that I believe in.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated