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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. All startups find themselves struggle with hiring to meet growing demand, leaving most startups scrambling to onboard hires. When startups make new hires, it’s not uncommon to then promote the longest-tenured engineer, tasking them with onboarding staff. At Women 2.0

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. They close on the $750k, hire a buddy or two, buy some Macs, and get to work. Things start to get a little fuzzy in terms of priorities, but not to fret, the new office is coming along really well with all of the hiring! There is $350k left in the bank.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

And for every time I’ve felt hugely stressed that our burn rate was getting too high, and I didn’t know who else was going to fund the company, and I’m all in on this company, right?” Because I’m going to say no to you, and the guys you want to hire from Facebook are going to say no to you.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. 4) WhatsApp. million plus overhead.

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How To Raise Venture Funding When Investors Hate Your Market

Hunter Walker

Maybe you’ve spoken with the previous companies customers or investors or employees and learned from that — maybe you’re even now taking their customers, hiring their best team members, whatever. Bring your burn rate down, crowdfund from your community of users, do whatever you can to make it to the other side of the disillusionment trough.

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An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

View from Seed

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. Team: Hires, fires, departures, responsibility changes, major promotions, and your org chart.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. It’s going to make the people who are working hard in the community—people who have the connections you need—that much less interested in helping you. Misconception #2: There’s no tech talent in NYC/Wall St.