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5 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know

YoungUpstarts

by Marcus Turner, President and CTO of Enola Labs. Make sure that there is a well-planned contract for everything. Having the proper contracts in place is discussed in any “business 101” setting. Hindsight being 20/20, we should have treated these projects like any other customer.

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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. Equally each of your board members are probably on 5-10 boards.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction.

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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. First check to seed?—?congrats Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will New CXO advisors join?—?

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