Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Angel Groups Social Media 261

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

Intellectual Property 404

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 404

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

I’ll join in the due diligence for my angel group, test for myself, and develop my informed opinion. For example, tech businesses managing product development road maps, research and development teams, extending software features or tech features in hardware would be likely to build strategy and tactics around technology.

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Technical Review Software Review Business Plan Development Team Review 72

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

So far it sounded like a fair deal, considering we didn’t yet have a product developed – only a pitch deck, a business plan, a fleshed-out idea, and some user interface (UI) designs of what we thought our online product would look like. The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3% We were on a roll.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. Tim advises checking out Gust, which lists regional and local angel groups.

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Angel Investor Software Review Technical Cofounder Due Diligence 60

ithacaVC

MARCH 14, 2011

It may have multiple people in each category, but for purposes of this post, let’s assume one tech founder, one business founder and then some additional “first employees” It would be normal for these first employees to be involved in product development. I am not going to focus on those aspects.

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Early Stage Founder Burn Rate Cofounder 45