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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach. In any event, don’t bloviate.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

Here’s what you’ll learn how to do: Use LinkedIn, and later other social networks like Twitter, to curate a list of high-value, warmly-connected prospects. Hire a virtual assistant to find your targets’ emails and other information. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Hire versatile players and lean into your team The SVB collapse reminded us that staffing matters. It emphasized to us that we need to make versatile hires with a focus on talent and ability to learn over experience.

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CEO Converts Deep Knowledge to Actionable Steps in Image Consulting

Hearpreneur

This can include basic wardrobe training for new hires all the way to immersive image management for the C suite. The way we learn about our clients and present their curated wardrobe is a luxury experience—the client doesn’t need to have a sartorial vocabulary for us to understand their needs and wants. What makes you unique?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). we would not be limited by geography, industry verticals, or expanding into new product lines (data is a truly huge industry with no TAM, or total available market, limitations). and hopefully?—?grow I think really hard when I’m naming a new startup.

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Accel APX conference: short take aways

Cracking the Code

Twilio does a phenomenal job; also look how devs are using your services 3) Be responsive 4) Find a community hero 5) Be a cheerleader 6) Listen actively: the opposite of marketing or broadcasting PANEL: New vertical APIs Adam Ludwin, CEO, Chain Daniel Yanisse, Founder & CEO, Checkr Andrei Pop, Founder & CEO, HumanAPI - rise of vertical APIs (..)

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section.