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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

When expanding their businesses, most tech startups and the subindustries that comprise the tech industry typically follow this model. One needs to evaluate their go-to-market strategy, distribution channels, scalability, execution team, and so on at this time. They like to spread their bets among several different companies.

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. What’s inside will differ depending on the channel or marketing campaign. Content channels.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. Tech stack. I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. Goodreads. I’m not active there.

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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups

Steve Blank

Therefore we needed them to think and learn about two parts of a startup; 1) ideation - how to create new ideas and 2) customer development – how do they test the validity of their idea (is it the right product, customer, channel, pricing, etc.). The semester concluded with pizza and ice cream.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

Once you have reviewed that resource and you have your bearings on what it takes to get started, you can start thinking about streamlining and implementing extensions of your business (think accounting and payroll, apps, ecommerce, etc). Appsbar enables anyone to create a professional, personalized app for FREE.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer.