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Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees

Both Sides of the Table

It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. You’re a startup founder. You start fighting with your co-founder whom you thought you understood. And he has already vested 75% of his stock options at your company. This is part of my startup advice series.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Consumer Services (B2C). Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. AllThingsDigital.

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Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing

Austin Startup

I had dinner with my good friend and Bazaarvoice co-founder, Brant Barton, on Tuesday at the new Sway in West Lake Hills (yummy) and we talked about lessons learned in angel investing. It doesn’t mean you won’t be able to help other companies, and we are in many B2C startups, for example. 5 from 4–5pm CT (you can sign up here ).

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The Data-Driven Marketer’s Guide to Influencer Marketing

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Here’s how Misha Talavera , founder of NeoReach , put it in AdWeek : Misha Talavera: “In fact, we see so many that we’re unconsciously tuning them out, a phenomenon called “banner blindness.” And for that reason, Mark Ecko advises against simply sending “just the stock s**t.” Treat it like any other acquisition growth experiment.

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8 B2B Link-Building Strategies That Never Go Out of Style

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B2B copywriting almost always requires more skill and time compared to B2C. Myriad sites use ugly stock photos. As Sujan Patel, co-founder of Right Inbox notes, making any interaction mutually beneficial increases success rates.). The second most common reason why your pitch might be rejected is the quality of your copy.

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Is Social Proof Really That Important?

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Neil Patel , founder of QuickSprout , uses a short-form case study from Ben Huh , a widely recognized name in tech, to encourage conversions. This type of social proof is most effective for B2C products and services, but that doesn’t mean it never works for B2B. Use this if you’re marketing B2B software, agency services, etc.