David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . For more on this, see An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack. Lastly, gather feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2017

More recently, most people think of Mark Zuckerberg as the creator of social media, but few remember his earlier efforts at creating video games, a music player, and Facemash, the last being his idea of a great dating app. Embrace the need to constantly innovate and change.

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

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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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

20:02] Could you talk a little bit more about this idea of being a sounding board and how that differs from an advisory board or an actual board? [21:22] And then one we like to call the sounding board, which is the small five to seven people. That's either your advisory board or their own advisory board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. No entrepreneur is an island, so take the initiative to build an advisory board. Have a big bandwidth.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

This might include things like: Website Social media banners and content Newsletters Digital and traditional media advertising Naming rights of a building Event sponsorship Speaking opportunities Exhibitor opportunities Access to influencers. These should be backed by social proof to show off your credentials.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 11, 2019

Invite Loyal Customers to Join an Advisory Board. To take this a level further, you could consider asking long-term customers to join an “advisory board” for your business. If a customer has been buying from your business for a long time, then it is reasonable to expect that they feel somewhat invested in your brand.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Tap into social media outlets like Facebook and LinkedIn. Network with other nonprofits that have diverse board policies and find out what works for them. Do they reflect the type of diversity that you want to attract in new board members? If not, it’s time for an update on the promotional media you use for outreach.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It must cross boundaries, working cooperatively with other divisions in your business such as sales, marketing, social media, PR, product development, and the like. These may include references, referrals, testimonials, serving on advisory boards, and participating in your customer communities, he explains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

For example, I used to regularly hear pitches for the next great social media site, usually focused on a special interest or niche , such as photography, cooking, healthy living, or a thousand others. I can tell you from personal experience that it’s easy to get blinded by daily crises, and miss key issues that gate success.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

My ask would be the next time you do or say something on behalf of the customer, like I've got a customer advisory board. Do you have an employee advisory board? And I don't mean an E R G, I mean an employee advisory board that might talk about some of the things we've talked about. But I am there.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. Equally important their VP of Marketing had brilliantly executed a stream of social media campaigns (Facebook likes and partnerships, email campaigns, etc.)

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. version, and talking to an advisory board and seed round investors already.” We were doing well and we liked working there.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. No entrepreneur is an island, so take the initiative to build an advisory board. Have a big bandwidth.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Free FoundersCard membership, 24/7 online support through forums, discounts on products and services, offline events, the assistance of an editorial team to aid in the creation and dissemination of content for the purposes of brand building and media opportunities, and more. Thanks to Pete Chatfield, Household Money Saving !

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

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). Utilize social media , the office Slack (while refraining from the infamous @channel), and your friends and family.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

First, those of you who don’t know Sarah, here is her quick bio: Sarah Evans ( @prsarahevans ) is the is the Chief Evangelist at Tracky ( www.tracky.com ), an open social collaboration platform and the owner of Sevans Strategy, a public relations and new media consultancy. A quick interview with Sarah on her new book Re[Frame].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . ” We certainly did.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

August 20, 2011 by Lauren Drell 1 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Have an account?

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The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

My startup is a B2B platform, we feel that we are the best in the world in creating social reviews and pushing the user-generated content to social media, emails and search engines to drive more sales and leads to the website. So far we have raised $2.3M We’ve spent $0 on outbound marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. Have early customers post their rave reviews everywhere that matters – your website, your social media platforms, and anywhere else where other potential customers will see them. Operating plan.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2018

We are also up to ten times more likely to share a social media feed about a company shared by an employee then we are one from the company. Word of mouth is powerful in the age of social media , so why not ask your people to be your ambassadors? Ask your employees, friends and family to be ambassadors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

You can also publicly thank them through your newsletter or on social media. Exclusive Content or Advisory Board You can create exclusive content or an advisory board of your champion customers. These thank-you notes can also include special offers for just your referral clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2017

With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. No entrepreneur is an island, so take the initiative to build an advisory board. Have a big bandwidth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2012

With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. No entrepreneur is an island, so take the initiative to use an advisory board. Have a big bandwidth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. No entrepreneur is an island, so take the initiative to build an advisory board. Have a big bandwidth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And now let's hear from a sponsor, you know, today everybody's online, but are they finding your website, grab the online spotlight and your customer's attention with some rush from content and SEO to ads and social media. From Content and SEO to ads and social media, Semrush is your one-stop-shop for online marketing.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

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

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

Simply leave a comment below or get in touch on any of our social media accounts – Twitter , Google+ and Facebook. To demonstrate traction you might recruit a good management team, start making sales, build an advisory board or secure strategic partnerships. Also, how safe is it to pitch my business idea to an investor?

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

You may think, “But I don’t use social media, and neither do my (conservative, old-school) potential investors!” The reality: you and your target investors are in the social media matrix whether you like it or not. Similarly, sites like LinkedIn are effectively dating sites for businesspeople.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

The possibilities to scale your business even faster with online and social media marketing make this era of the greatest to pursue any passion. The best part about being an entrepreneur is having the freedom to think BIG and act on your ideas with the only limitation being your mind. Thanks to Patrick Osei, Hot Money Studios ! #17-Having

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

Salesforce recently conducted research , which found nearly 25 per cent of millennials expect to get a response within 10 minutes of reaching out for customer service via social media and nearly one quarter will boycott a company after one bad experience. According to our research, millennials ardently avoid calling customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2011

With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. No entrepreneur is an island, so take the initiative to build and use an advisory board. Have a big bandwidth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my role as an advisory board member for several startups, I’m always excited to see that initial surge of revenue from a great rollout campaign. Napster created the free music sharing craze back in the nineties and found great acceptance, and ignored the legal pushback by content owners, only to lose it all in the end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As a member of the advisory board for several startups and a mentor to other entrepreneurs, I’ve accumulated my own list of strategies and recommendations on where “going the extra mile” can save you from disaster or supercharge your startup for maximum growth under any circumstances. No proprietary content is death.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business With all the new technology available today for video conferencing, interactive social media, and webinars, you may think that travel is no longer a requirement for starting a small business. Mentoring and shared advisory board opportunities. You would be wrong. Face-to-face time is key.

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