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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

Conclusion Bottom line – if you are an early-stage startup with online or mobile technology as part of your solution, you ABSOLUTELY NEED a technical advisor. After the initial money has mostly been spent, it can be very tough to recover. Having a strategic and tactical advisor can greatly reduce the chance you’ll get stuck.

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.

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10 Goodwill Elements To Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Urgency and risk-taking in a startup are integral parts of the culture, felt by 100 percent of early-stage employees. With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. The answer is that, yes, government agencies need to be more agile.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

And it made me come to a new realization: Every early-stage web/mobile/online startup should have at least one technical advisor, probably two. Most early-stage, in-house teams needs to be hands on developers, not strategic. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups.

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8 Tips to Ensure That Your Startup Doesn’t Fail

The Startup Magazine

While certain aspects of setting up a startup can be exhilarating, especially in the early stages of the business, there are also plenty of bumps along the road, big and small. You need to keep your startup lean and agile and not become big with too much money and too many people. Image Source. Conclusion.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Old-school approaches like the Waterfall methodology remain too risky for businesses still in a highly revenue-challenged state early in their operations. Consider Agile or one of its variants for a flexible approach to building top-shelf mobile apps or interactive websites.

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