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5 Reasons To Enlist Outside Advisors For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some key reasons why I believe every entrepreneur should create a formal Advisory Board or Board of Directors before they ask for funding, or even build their business plan: We all need a bit of reality to balance our passion. The cost of a co-founder is usually fifty percent of your equity.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Building An Effective Board For Your Startup

Duct Tape Marketing

Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. He’s also an author of a number of books including — Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Brad Feld.

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Maximizing Your Marketing Impact With Fractional CMOs

Duct Tape Marketing

Check out JP’s Youtube Channel. You know, fractional, one of the benefits, I'm sure we'll get into this, but one of the benefits for business is for fractional professionals is that a company either may not have the budget or they may not have the demand Yeah. This kind of came about as demand people were asking about it.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

There’s been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder , but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that’s different from a great founding CEO. In doing so we’ve failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Founders – the idea.

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What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

mashable.com

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. instead of having to travel home. .&# instead of having to travel home.

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[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

Customer discovery turns founders’ initial hypotheses about their market and customers into facts. Enthusiasts who spread the good news about your product to friends, family or co-workers are often called evangelists. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates. They understand they have a problem.

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