Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. are using AngelMob.co

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

Software programmers are in extremely high demand - you’re competing with Facebook, Google and thousands of other startups. Very early-stage startups may have to give up as much as 30% of their company to bring on a rockstar programmer. When I started my social network, I didn’t have any tech skills.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust. For example, if you’re an early stage company dealing with complex regulation (think Uber in transportation, Oscar in healthcare, LendingClub in finance), we have people who can help.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. We have just entered the mania phase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

If your target market is difficult to reach, instead of tackling it head on, go after an adjacent market in order to stimulate demand. Back when Facebook was still just for schools, some schools already had their own social networks. PayPal famously offered a $20 2-way reward in their early stages of growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

Instead, Facebook is the most popular social channel for customer service questions and is used twice as often as Twitter, which is the second most-used social media site. If you don’t have social as part of your customer service strategy, your business is missing out.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2011

Over 500 Groupon “copycat” websites have sprung up all over the Internet, taxing the already somewhat “faddish” demand for the daily deals site. So we are left with that sinking feeling that this whole social networking advertising space may be just one giant bubble waiting to burst….

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

In this case, the system will be made up of a classic two-sided market: Job Seekers Jobs / Employers And like most two-sided markets, the value to either side is most often proportional to the number of users on the network’s other side. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

In this case, the system will be made up of a classic two-sided market: Job Seekers Jobs / Employers And like most two-sided markets, the value to either side is most often proportional to the number of users on the network’s other side. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. So far we have been very effective using blogs, social networks, etc.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 3) Raise capital.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Manage seasonal demand through pricing - Weather on the Oregon coast can range from gorgeous to downright nasty and can change from one of the other in a matter of minutes. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital. You take a more tacit approach.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. While the supply-demand equation will never be completely fixed, the information and accessibility to angel investors is only getting better. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

For a long time, they were basically the only game in town for seed and early stage funding in NYC. Not only has the NYC ecosystem changed, but the whole ecosystem around early and seed investing has innovated. Meeting in person is no longer the only way an angel investor can get looped in a network of other investors.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network? Then decide if you can build more value on either end of that process to demand a higher premium. 5% I believe.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

Investors at the early stage should be looking for companies and technologies that are truly disruptive. Additionally, giving away smart outstanding products results info Free “Word of mouth” sharing in social networks which gives the brand additional impressions and exposure. 28) Customer Service.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

He is the founder of Premium Growth Solutions, a strategic planning consultancy for early-stage consumer packaged goods brands. He's the founder of premium growth solutions, a strategic planning consultancy for early stage consumer packaged goods brands. This is John Jansen. My guest today is Dr. James Richardson.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 21, 2015

Even better, once completed, ThingLink lets you tag your piece and share with your social network along with their own community. The tools basic features enable users to design quite rich, interactive videos and images to incorporate into a content marketing strategy. Go forth and design. Designing is not easy.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. This week, the President is expected to pass H.R.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Yeah, you should get out more Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things Skype Demands Mobile App Nimbuzz Remove Support, Effective October 31st Shunned By Apple, Adobe Embraces Android With AIR 2.5 Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Yeah, you should get out more Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things Skype Demands Mobile App Nimbuzz Remove Support, Effective October 31st Shunned By Apple, Adobe Embraces Android With AIR 2.5 This is the third in a series of posts on how to form your own startup from scratch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. They know this because Twitter is social, open & asymmetric. Not so on Twitter. People can follow me and I don’t have to follow them back.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. on demand billing and fraud management. Social Commerce. Social CRM. Social Inbox.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.

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