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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

While Bob’s post focuses on Technology Advisors and the Startup Founder Developer Gap , we also discussed advisors more broadly. In some cases, Founders are building an Advisory Board with the purpose of padding their investor deck. I wanted to capture some of the broader conversation. Investors discount this.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users).

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users).

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Role of a Mentor in Their Business

Hearpreneur

During the early days of my digital marketing business, my mentor offered counsel and functioned as my sounding board. He let me develop my own ideas and arrive at my own solutions to my business problems at a much faster rate than if I did so alone with no one to guide me. . 3- Helps employees develop skills.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.