Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

We pitch to potential partners, vendors, publishers, conferences, employees, and even lawyers. I have come to believe that there is a hierarchy of pitches, and that understanding where your pitch falls on this spectrum can assist in making decisions about what information to highlight. can your team execute the growth plan?

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Tim advises asking potential investors to sit in on a “pre pitch” before the formal pitch session, a strategy that worked well for Dune Sciences, which won the 2014 Willamette Angel Conference investment. See Also 11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading. Sean has the final word: “Don’t sleep on pitch competitions!”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Actively managing a crowdsourced project is no more or less difficult than managing a project executed in-house, but does come with a different set of hazards. Some platforms provide tools to assist with this, but often it will be up to the manager to perform this role.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

I recently wrote a post about how to manage relationships when you’re at a startup or are busy executive. Anyway, as I winnowed my way through the comments section of my blog post on relationships I realized my own wife has posted a response! office manager, finance manager and/or assistant if he has one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. In regular parlance, that's food stamps, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. She served as the U.S. She, by the way, was busy on social media. This is really not fair."

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Research Executive at Blueocean Marke. Follow her on Twitter @corpnet and Facebook. What will you find here?

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Research Executive at Blueocean Marke. Follow her on Twitter @corpnet and Facebook. What will you find here?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ]. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. Partner Leverage.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The remaining 10% is then free for you to ask for help, sharing your latest blog post or anything else that might benefit you directly. Use Twitter to break the ice : Before heading to a meeting or conference, look up attendees on Twitter and connect with them. But bigger isn’t always better.

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2018

Rather than writing strict logic for strict execution, a machine learning system weighs the available data to make a decision about a given goal. program head first, how does a marketing executive ensure solid footing, quick comprehension and a competitive edge on the leading edge? They are attending conferences.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. These are the businesses that we should be learning from.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. So I’ve always advised people that if they do launch at a big show, the most important public relations work they do is after the conference. But more broadly it got me thinking to one of the biggest mistakes tech executives get into in the first place.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

For example, my vision at Growthink is to become the number one place where entrepreneurs go for assistance starting and growing their companies. Also, while competitors' actions may cause you to shift your strategies, if you have a set vision, you will spend less time strategizing and more time executing.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

I had been reading financial blogs and decided that I could start one as well. So, that’s what I did – it was originally a blog about sharing my investment thoughts, and over time evolved into the form it is today. I build social media platforms, help procure contracts, assist with infrastructure and more. 17- Flexibility.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Using a perceived value pricing technique might be somewhat arbitrary, but it can greatly assist in the effective marketing of a product since it sets product pricing in line with its perceived value by potential buyers.”. You’ll have to bring out your inner spin doctor , because there are endless ways to execute the power of reframing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. These are the businesses that we should be learning from.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. is a virtual assistant which can coordinate your fundraising and other meetings.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! Approximately half the session topics will be pre-determined, and aim to assist planners in utilizing social media and technology in event and meeting planning, execution, business development and networking.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Adrian Zackheim, Will Weisser, Margot Stamas, and my amazing editor Emily Angell, and editorial assistant Jesse Maeshiro, thank you! You can check out these projects at Brian’s blog: Results, Transparency and Trust in IT. Dr. Jill Syme started a blog, ReVisioneer. C for Committed. K for Killer.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Too often, in my in-house and now consulting days, I talk to clients and executives who want to know how much each dollar spent brings back in revenue and which channels and activities generate the largest return. Here’s what I mean: Prospect A sees a Facebook Ad for your newest blog post and clicks through. Why do I say that?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Kanye West. Let's recap. Google, and Facebook.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. And I know some CEOs go on to daily blogs where they're sharing their issues from bookmarking a website on their laptop to using Zoom to not using Zoom now to moving around and using various things. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Office of Assistance to Europe, Central Asia, & the Americas. Office of Assistance to the Near East. Every team spoke to close to 100 potential “beneficiaries,” partners and stakeholders including NGOs, tech company executives, supply chain managers, foreign service officers in embassies around the world, and even refugees.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Office of Assistance to Europe, Central Asia, & the Americas. Office of Assistance to the Near East. Every team spoke to close to 100 potential “beneficiaries,” partners and stakeholders including NGOs, tech company executives, supply chain managers, foreign service officers in embassies around the world, and even refugees.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

A version of this post originally appeared on Juan Sequeda’s blog. I propose the following metric: inclusion at the South by South West (SXSW) Conference ! I’m not trying to undermine current efforts or accomplishments; instead, look for example at the Semantic Technology conference. Mainstream for whom? Who is “we”?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. I mentioned to Mike that I was going to kick this series off over on the Meebo Blog , but he suggested I start it here.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

It’s also a great way to get inspiration for blogging. Books, mentors, advisors, entrepreneurial friends, conferences, dinners, meetups, etc and it’s usually real time meaning you learn what you need today to solve your biggest challenges. Also how affective are clean, well executed promo videos? Why do I do it?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Yehoshua I've covered this topic in detail in this blog post: Multi-Channel Attribution: Definitions, Models and a Reality Check. But how can I see which pages merely assist conversions? Here's a helpful blog post: Understanding And Using Page Value. Here's a helpful blog post: Understanding And Using Page Value.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

blogtronix – An enterprise social platform that includes blogs, wikis, documents and social media so that users in large and small organizations can collaborate and build communities inside and outside their company. Clearspace – An online collaboration suite that includes documents, blogs, discussions, projects, and more.

Software Review 78

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

Update: This blog post is overwhelmingly for those who want to become Analysts ("Business" in the matrix above). Blogs: There is no doubt that the most current knowledge exists in blogs (yes, yes I know that the fad of the month is Twitter & Facebook, for someone starting to build a career the most current distractions exist there :)).

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Executive Summary. And they crunch because, back when they were programmers or artists or testers or assistant producers or associate producers, that was the way they were taught to get things done. IGDA Board Blog. by Evan Robinson. As weve seen, thats the essential logic behind Crunch Modes otherwise inexplicable popularity.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Help This provides assistance on how to fill out the form. From what I have seen in conferences where Amazon engineers gave talks, they seriously test *everything* on their UX/UI. In fact, they popularized the use of tabs for navigation (as I wrote in my blog – [link] ). November 9th, 2011. ” – I call BS.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

The opportunity when I got to pitch on stage in front of 400 angel investors was for the largest angel investor conference in the Pacific northwest called Angel Oregon, and we competed with 60 other companies. I’m talking about a really compelling executive summary, and you can even do these in one page.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2011

Step 2 – Determine where they “hang out” both online and offline — what blogs are they reading? It’s easier to find 100 blogs that your target market is following and get 70 of them to run your content than it is to try like crazy to get on The Today Show. What other authors do they follow? What trade magazines are they reading?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Founders can make in-person connections, however, with Qualcomm Ventures at various demo events, conferences and trade shows. Amplifying that expertise through blogs, Twitter Twitter , live streams will get you the attention of VCs, too. The group also hosts its annual QPrize competition, awarding winners with $750,000 in seed funding.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Expensify Blog. Blog posts like this might be part of why you’re finding it hard to hire good people. Think of it like Ruby on Rails, you can do the “Blog in 15 minutes” trick by scaffolding everything in RoR, but it won’t be a production app. « chawisa's blog. Sunday edit : Still going!

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