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JULY 9, 2015

Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things. This could help that serendipitous partner find you or that prospect (either customer or talent) better understand what you’re doing and proceed with confidence.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As an investor in companies such as Attentive , The Nudge , and Hatch , we’ve long been bullish about SMS as the next communication and engagement channel, and I’m especially excited about this repeat-order flow that Ten Little designed as a busy mom. My son is 10-month old so he doesn’t need shoes yet (soon!),

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JULY 21, 2022

For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions. We’re hoping to walk away with a dynamic set of frameworks that we can continue to apply to our learnings and ideas, as well as a long-lasting relationship with our thought partners, Melody and Jack.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

And if we’re investing in the company, it then impacts how I might be most helpful as a thought partner to the entrepreneur depending on their archetype. The Mercenary. In some ways, backing a “missionary” founder is a harder decision or at least harder to get right as a VC investor.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

In our latest episode, Ben Einstein , Founder/Partner of BOLT , an early-stage VC investing in hardware startups, shares the stories of several connected devices and hardware companies and their tricks and challenges. Listen now in these places or wherever you get your podcasts: Channel links: iTunes | SoundCloud | Stitcher.

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JANUARY 11, 2016

How to gain credibility in an industry populated by traditionally-minded partners. Listen now in these places or wherever you get your podcasts: Channel links: iTunes | SoundCloud | Stitcher. Follow Justin @glassrobinson and visit drizly.com to learn more.

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MARCH 16, 2016

The next big consumer company could be BookBub , with millions of users, a ravenous fan base on social channels, and global reach. Additionally, few legacy companies have been as successful in innovating through younger channels like YouTube, Vine, Snapchat, podcasting, and more.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Someone with strong analytical intuition can become a strategic thought partner with the leadership team and functional leaders. It means the ability to ask 2nd- and 3rd-order questions through data manipulation and derive interesting insights out of seemingly unwieldy, large sets of numbers.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

And often a deck is being read as a follow-up by the potential lead partner or the rest of her partnership. What channels have worked to date and done so cost-efficiently? Product Snapshots: While some of the time there is an opportunity during a pitch meeting for a live demo, it’s not always the case.

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JULY 28, 2015

Experimentation is critical because an early-stage company often can get early traction on new and less-well-understood channels that may not scale for larger companies. Early stage companies also often will exhaust early channels that work, or are working in channels that are evolving much more quickly.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. This is an initiative that we will continue to refine in the coming years, but we are so excited to be partnering with these Guild members going forward.

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APRIL 16, 2015

The fact that at least a few customers (and one channel partner) would sign on with such a rudimentary product was an interesting indication that the question above would be solvable for this business.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

We’ve written before on how to research partners , how to pitch the right investor at a given firm, and how to raise seed capital , generally speaking. What I mean is that after a first meeting with a single partner, that partner might say “Great discussion. I’m going to discuss with our team here and then get back to you.”

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AUGUST 27, 2014

This was back when I was director of content at Dailybreak Media, and I was hiring several creatives to build a new team that would grow our audience and work with our brand partners to launch native or sponsored content campaigns. ” These subtle differences focus on the process itself , rather than the end result.

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MAY 5, 2020

We are going to quickly take some proactive steps to try to promote the program among audiences that may be outside our typical channels, and we would welcome any other suggestions of things we can do to bring in a more diverse set of applicants (please share suggestions in the comments below).

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