Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2017

Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. Find the right investment advisor, or member of your advisory board, and the “match-making” will happen. If you need more, you need VCs or a flock of angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. Find the right investment advisor, or member of your advisory board, and the “match-making” will happen. If you need more, you need VCs or a flock of angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2011

Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. Find the right investment advisor, or member of your advisory board, and the “match-making” will happen. If you need more, you need VCs or a flock of angels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Every client referral programs are probably the ones you are most familiar with, a gift certificate, refer-a-friend model, donation matching offers, etc. The lunches and get-togethers are offered as a thank-you, but the networking that occurs can be mutually beneficial to you, your business, and your referral champions as well.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

So how can you network in to them if you didn’t win the genetic lottery? One of the reasons I wrote a book about online networks a decade ago was that I saw their power to make sales more efficient, particularly for people who were not a priori in the right networks. Their odds of a successful match went up accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2010

Use personal networking. The best angels you will find are the ones who know you personally, or know a member of your team or advisory board. Find the right investment advisor, or member of your advisory board, and the “match-making” will happen. If you need more, you need VCs or a flock of angels.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2018

Maintaining a strong network of experts. Hire People that Match the Culture the Business Needs. Hiring people who match the required culture and have the ability to succeed is the most part of any hiring decision. Maintain a strong Network of Experts. Knowing why customers want to buy your product or service.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When we started the company it was only web-based and we thought that the best idea would be simply to call it by the website address (driving tests), particularly seeing as the main marketing strategy was search engine optimization, we secured a domain name that was an exact match keyword for what it does and everything was self-service.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We are building a platform to make instant, tailored, vetted matches between talent and companies without the randomness of a job board and without the theater, long lead times, and cost, of a full service agency. Service marketplaces like ours work best when they help their stakeholders solve other meaningful, related problems.In

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We are building a platform to make instant, tailored, vetted matches between talent and companies without the randomness of a job board and without the theater, long lead times, and cost, of a full service agency. Service marketplaces like ours work best when they help their stakeholders solve other meaningful, related problems.In

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit – the match between what you’re building and who will buy it. Sales (and/or customer acquisition in a multi-sided market) becomes achievable by a sales force (or network effect or virality) without heroic efforts from the founders. If not, start one.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Rostan agrees — he thinks coworking spaces can be great for networking, but he says he spends so much time on the phone that he probably wouldn’t get to network that much. First, find an area that matches your companies needs and budget. . “But that seems more of a luxury than a necessity.&#

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

At 1 million strong, the millennials in Singapore are a sizeable demographic with spending power to match, their online behaviour and appetite for digital experiences with brands are reshaping the very fabric of customer service delivery. hours per day, on their mobile phones.

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 16, 2013

This is where you build your team, your extended team, your advisory board, your board, designers, developers, your partner network and your influence network and more. Because the ecosystem has to match the market needs and the phase of the company and both keep changing along the way.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, from gay social network to design, we made the decision within 10 days to focus exclusively on our new One Thing, and we set a rule that not one person on the team could still do the old thing.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

A Silicon Valley native, for years Brian has been in the business of high stakes match-making, with the mission of bringing the right talent to the right company at the right time. Meredith is an angel investor in Color Genomics and Munchery and sits on the advisory board for zkipster.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

It’s started by Marc Ruxin , a former A&R man for EMI Records who has been on a million advisory boards in the Valley and had several jobs in and around pop culture. The match-up of meaty pieces and the ticker seems to be working, at least for me. ” Ditto a new company about to launch called TastemakerX.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. It saves both you and your customer time and effort if it turns out there isn’t a good match. Networking. An essential marketing tool in any real estate professional’s toolkit is networking. Operating plan. Set up a CRM.

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