Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Use tools and analytics to identify trends and directions. An easy way to connect with people you can learn from, and keep your pulse on where things are heading, is to hire team members who are smarter than you in complementary business areas, including marketing and sales. Build and listen to an effective group of advisors.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. I’m a VC with 8 years of experience; more about me here. Q: What have you built so far?

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. I’m a VC in New York with 8 years of experience; more about me here.

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Sponsors will have different reasons for backing your project: sales, lead generation, brand awareness, product launches , corporate social responsibility, etc. Data on interactions can be found in social analytics dashboards and Google Analytics. . Try not to think of this as a sales meeting. Audience data.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2013

Become a Google analytics expert. Build an advisory board. Command a board room. Assemble an email blast. Develop and track a funnel. Make decisions off cohort tracking. Write a blog post. Deliver a keynote. Build Links. Conduct customer interviews. Segment a market. Understand a term sheet. Recruit and Train.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

Following the logic that venture founding teams need both builders (engineers, operations specialists) and sellers (marketing, sales, business development), I focused my coursework on marketing, and some of these classes truly blew my mind.

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