Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups. Assemble an engaged new venture advisory board.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

This will help sponsors quickly identify if your audience matches their target market. However, matching demographics alone doesn’t guarantee ROI. It contains the story of your property, mission statement, sponsor benefits, demographics, marketing plan, goals, media opportunities, advisory board, and the sponsor fees.”.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). Chapter 33: Building Your Board…What Makes a Great Board Member?,

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Their odds of a successful match went up accordingly. You may think, “But I don’t use social media, and neither do my (conservative, old-school) potential investors!” Jeanne Sullivan , co-founder, StarVest Partners, strongly recommends creating an advisory board, especially in the early days. Prove more through metrics.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

The number of those VCs who didn’t know our stage or who had some other part of their thesis that we didn’t match was also staggering. Don’t boomerang founders If you have specific metrics you look for in early stage companies. There is no such thing as “not right now” there is just “yes” and “no”.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Another way to cheat at this is to simply use Medium Matches Exactly Organic. Does the distribution match your goals? Do the keywords match the intent of the page ? Back to our story. Ready for the next step?

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It doesn’t matter how smart or experienced people are, if they don’t match your style it’ll never work. Sure, you’ll need a lot of input to figure out the plan, but you and only you can provide that clarity of focus that is required to say, “this what we’re doing” and then align the resources to match the direction. Connect With Me.

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