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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs, especially technical ones, are excited by early adopters, and tend to focus on their feedback, which will always suggest more product features and options. 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.

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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. to drive traffic to their site, which they then turned into ad revenue. Organizational debt was coming due. Refactoring” organizational debt.

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8 Tips For Quantifying Traction In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors are wary of initial surges due to friends, family, and early adopters, so sustainable growth rates over time are key. Assemble a credible inside advisory board and partners. If Elon Musk is an advisor to your transportation startup, that is major traction, even without a product or revenue.

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IoT: Bridging the Performance Promise Gap – Female Founder Series

The Startup Magazine

Her premise is that technology has been a great disruptor – and no area more so than the launch of the Internet of Things. She is a strong STEM advocate and an active member of the advisory board for CompTIA ’s Advisory Council. IoT is all about the data and the insights it can provide. The Power of Open Data.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

We want to use our proprietary technology and network to tap the relevant players to take the relevant steps forward; and identify, document, and disseminate best practices. Q: Is this civic tech? As a VC, I’m interested in working with companies with large-scale revenue potential, and that’s the company we envision.

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