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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Most ecommerce sites highlight this feature. Your focus for momentum could be sales, profitability, or number of customers, but trying to keep all possible parameters growing is simply not practical. Select a single dimension to measure momentum. Plan a long-term strategy, and avoid crisis moves.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #16: The importance of reference checking

Austin Startup

We were really impressed with Keith Benjamin in particular and he was joining our Board of Directors (unfortunately Keith passed away in a tragic accident in 2008 as I wrote about in this Bazaarvoice blog post ; I think about him often?—?he he was an incredible friend and eCommerce and Wall Street visionary).

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

As I’ve helped entrepreneurs find their own product-market fit and connected them to potential clients, investors, and Advisory Board members, I’ve spent a lot of time telling them about the “cool kids”. I’ve also, of course, been spending a lot of time talking about this with our rapidly growing sales team at data.world.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Mr. Parekh serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies. Before joining Track.com as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Savage served as Managing Director of FX Macro Sales at Goldman Sachs, where he published widely-read and insightful research focused on the foreign exchange markets and the macroeconomic environment.

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Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing

Austin Startup

When Clayton decided to start a Fund after his incredible sale of Deep Eddy Vodka, we knew we had to be investors. We already believed in the macro trends of niche brands, retail differentiation (and disruption) in the age of eCommerce, The Long Tail , and consumer tastes and diets shifting faster than big CPG companies could keep up.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

unfortunately, social commerce morphed to mean solutions like Facebook eCommerce stores offered by numerous small vendors who are now mostly no longer in business. and therefore the sales?—?that In contrast, our definition of social commerce meant social media, or word of mouth, applied in a commerce environment.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Startups For Sale. SnapEngage â?? live chat integrates with your apps. Zendesk â?? web help software. UserVoice â?? Kampyle â??