Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The sales professional. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 28, 2019

Here’s how to build a startup advisory board. And while it often seems more involved and complex than it is in reality, setting up an advisory board is something you should look to put in place in the early stages of your entrepreneurial venture. Selecting an advisory board is the tricky part.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Advisory Board. At one of our initial board meetings we had agreed on the general principle of an advisory board and put together an overall stock budget to compensate advisors. Over the next week we exchanged emails over advisory board stock. I knew he would bring immense value to me and the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Member of the Advisory Board. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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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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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. The target market advisory board should consist of 2–4 industry veterans who have connections to C-level execs and VPs in your target market. Never discount the power of a warm intro.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

An easy way to connect with people you can learn from, and keep your pulse on where things are heading, is to hire team members who are smarter than you in complementary business areas, including marketing and sales. Spend more time with people who can help, rather than be helpers. Build and listen to an effective group of advisors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Tiffani emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to company strategy that involves all stakeholders, including IT, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and HR. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. A marketer sends a sales qualified lead over to the sales team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Between Board Meetings. Communicating Between Board Meetings. The Agile Board. Board Observers & Advisory Boards -.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

The sales professional. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

The sales professional. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Advisory boards come up often in conversations with founders, especially early in a company’s life when they’re looking to build out expertise, industry relationships and social proof. While not everyone is a fan of Advisory Boards , I believe they can be valuable. Does your startup have advisors?

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Your founders and board members won’t always have the necessary expertise you need in every area to be competitive and sustainable. An advisory board can be of great assistance to your startup by filling crucial gaps in your leadership talent. Let’s begin with the definition of the role of a startup advisory board member.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements. Revenue Architecture. This is quite the balancing act.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Start Exit Planning Your Small Business for Sale to a Strategic or Financial Buyer in the Coming Years. Serve as a Sounding Board for Sensitive Challenges & Opportunities You Face as a Small Business. Provide Insights, Analysis & Introductions for Raising Capital in the Year Ahead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements. Revenue Architecture. This is quite the balancing act.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. I’m a VC with 8 years of experience; more about me here. Q: What have you built so far?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

Missed milestones de-motivate the team, unrealistic financial projections will put you in crisis with investors, and you find you need to double every product development timeframe when talking to sales and marketing.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. I’m a VC in New York with 8 years of experience; more about me here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

The sales professional. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

Missed milestones de-motivate the team, unrealistic financial projections will put you in crisis with investors, and you find you need to double every product development timeframe when talking to sales and marketing.

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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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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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] Jason Bay is a leading sales expert and he talks with other leading sales experts to get you the information you need. Connect with Liz on LinkedIn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

As you move from development to rollout, a team effort is required, including marketing, sales, funding, and customers. Every startup should have at least quarterly meetings with an Advisory Board or key investors to bring a new perspective to what is working and what is not. Focus on communication and responsibility assignment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

You need to maintain explicit C-suite and Board buy-in for constant transformation through effective communication, highlighting the struggles of peer businesses, and establishing the right metrics. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share.

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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.” As Su says “We were both in good positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2013

Build an advisory board. Command a board room. Segment a market. Understand a term sheet. Recruit and Train. Train an intern. Hire A Players. Replace B Players. Cold call C level executives. Write a novel. Raise Money. Tell an investor they’ve lost all their money. Analyze a balance sheet. Make a budget.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2010

Missed milestones de-motivate the team, unrealistic financial projections will put you in crisis with investors, and you find you need to double every product development timeframe when talking to sales and marketing.

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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

JUNE 7, 2019

I saw this challenge outlined well in a new book, “ Learning to Lead ,” by Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna and self-made business leader, who rose from the poor side of the tracks in south Chicago to lead several large businesses, and ultimately serve on the President’s Management Advisory Board for several years.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Sponsors will have different reasons for backing your project: sales, lead generation, brand awareness, product launches , corporate social responsibility, etc. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Here again is your chance to make pivots for almost no cost. Talk to industry experts and investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Your focus for momentum could be sales, profitability, or number of customers, but trying to keep all possible parameters growing is simply not practical. In most companies, maintaining momentum requires the right strategic partners and acquisitions, in lieu of short-term price adjustments and special sales.

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