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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. No matter how much energy, experience, and passion you have, there is always more you can learn from an Advisory Board of external experts or a mentor. Utilize outside expertise and mentoring.

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The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs

www.instigatorblog.com

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps. Ended in Week 10 as a B2C platform for scheduling on-demand at-home senior care. Team Pause. If you can’t see the Pause video, click here.

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So, You Want to Speak at SXSW?

Austin Startup

Take note of what was presented the year before, as organizers won’t program a repeat unless there’s a huge demand. Public voting makes up one-third of the scheduling decision-power (with the PanelPicker team and the SXSW Advisory Board covering the other two-thirds). Push into uncharted spaces with your session idea.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.” Santa Clara University shares their demand dividend structure. .

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust. Or, you can go straight to the source. It started in healthcare.

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Traction Metrics Seed Real Startup Funding And Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Build outside relationships with media and analysts. It’s never too early to build relationships with industry analysts, influential bloggers and the media, and show how these have grown over time. Build an inside advisory board of influencers and experts. Show evidence of growing and unsatisfied customer demand.

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