Startup Professionals Musings

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A Startup Advisory Board Dream Team is Priceless

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend that every early-stage startup find three Advisory Board members. Once your company is past the startup stage, you do need a board of directors. What better candidates than your Advisory Board? The more experienced and blunt your board members are, the better. Let’s talk specifics.

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The Right Startup Advisory Board Has A Big Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend that every early-stage startup find three Advisory Board members. Once your company is past the startup stage, you do need a board of directors. What better candidates than your Advisory Board? The more experienced and blunt your board members are, the better. Let’s talk specifics.

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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. Board members provide inexpensive expertise. Skip insiders, friends, and family.

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7 Ways To Use An Advisory Board To Accelerate Success

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s the function of a good advisory board. Thus I believe every smart investor, potential partner, or critical new hire will look for a properly built advisory board as a key criteria before selection or making a commitment. Keep the advisory board to a manageable size.

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An Advisory Board is a Startup’s Best Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend that every early-stage startup find three Advisory Board members. Once your company is past the startup stage, you do need a board of directors. What better candidates than your Advisory Board? The more experienced and blunt your board members are, the better. Let’s talk specifics.

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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

Member of the Advisory Board. Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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7 Strategies For Anticipating Future Customer Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. There are many free generalized tools, including Google Trends , which can be used to track customer behavior in looking for things that don’t exist yet.

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