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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

Up and Running

Erik Chan, founder and CEO of RocketClub, advises seeking out investors “who invest in a different space,” as this can sometimes provide feedback from a new angle that those in your industry might have missed. Ask an angel investor: Targeting a particular angel investor can be a good tactic, as they are often willing to evaluate your pitch.

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How to design a Board of Directors

Scalable Startup

How to design a board of directors. Many factors come into play in early board formation including the founder’s goals, investors, cofounders, early appointees, family, friends. It’s fine to have the founder and maybe one cofounder on the board; after all that’s all you have to draw from. By Tom Nora.

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You Need a BoD Now

Scalable Startup

How to design a board of directors. Many factors come into play in early board formation including the founder’s goals, investors, cofounders, early appointees, family, friends. It’s fine to have the founder and maybe one cofounder on the board; after all that’s all you have to draw from. By Tom Nora.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. And if I tried to find out?

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Even In The Quietest Moments (it’s lonely at the top)

Scalable Startup

A real startup, that has employees and funding and a going operation.]. It will include travel, employee issues, hiring, firing, product design, cash burn, a new facility, the next funding round and some client and partner visits. The Google founders surrounded themselves with a dozen moentors and advisors.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.