VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A bond between a founder and investor is a commitment for a long term relationship – that’s why it is important to have the right partners on your side. Choose a partner, not just a fund. So choose your partner wisely. . “Founder-investor fit is crucial for a company’s success. Personal fit.

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Founder Term Sheet Cofounder Venture Capital 187

ReadWriteStart

JULY 5, 2023

Dermatologists are specifically hired to review the skin images captured by the 3D scanner, and there is always a doctor present to provide qualified medical judgments. Neko Health is eager to differentiate itself from infamous scandals in the health technology industry like the one involving Theranos.

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Sweden Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Technical Review 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

The simple answer is to find a business partner, not an “implementer,” who already has the technical experience you need, and is willing and able to run that side of the business. Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Technology Founder Management 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

If you are not starting one yourself, the next best thing is joining one as a partner, or as an early employee. A qualified career coach can help you get totally clear on your objectives, differentiate you from the competition, market you effectively, get the offer, and negotiate the best compensation. Invest in career coaching.

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Community Startup Hiring Differentiation 420

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

With pervasive access to social media, customers no longer differentiate poor product repair and replacement from a poor shopping experience or customer usage satisfaction. Start by hiring the right people, and providing the necessary training, coaching, and mentoring. This results in more profits and growth for you.

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Differentiation Social Media Customer Matching 274

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Client cost differentials of less than twenty percent are usually not enough to incent change. Your job as a leader is to provide the resources to implement the plan, communicate it effectively to the team, and bring people in with right skills as partners and employees to make it happen.

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Marketing Leadership Differentiation Equity 290

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Due to the nature and growing popularity of online fitness, you should also include how you will differentiate your business and specifically operate in the online space. While many online fitness business owners start out as sole traders, one of the main areas for potential growth is hiring staff or a team of other instructors and trainers.

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Business Plan Software Review Demand Operations 81

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2014

What do we want our partners and clients to say about us? Hire people who care. So from now on, place “capacity for caring” on the list of non-negotiable qualifications for all new hires — right up there with experience and technical competency. Hiring a few caring employees can have an amazing ripple effect! Be generous.

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America Employee Technical Review Non-Compete 154

Transformify

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. Our guest today is Jim Barnish, Managing Partner, Morgan Hill Partners. Jim, lots of companies hire freelancers to complete short -term projects.

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Hiring Africa Partner Differentiation 118

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2013

If you are not starting one yourself, the next best thing is joining one as a partner, or as an early employee. A qualified career coach can help you get totally clear on your objectives, differentiate you from the competition, market you effectively, get the offer, and negotiate the best compensation. According to Ford R.

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Partner Differentiation Networking Hiring 222

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

3:43] How do you differentiate between a tactic and what you’re calling strategy? [4:41] 7:15] How do you manage the fact that somebody is hiring you to do marketing, but you can’t really do marketing if you don’t get into every aspect of their business? [10:20] And the execution is the roadmap.

Marketing 76

Marketing Differentiation Sacramento Small Business 76

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Customers are looking for a differentiator today. Make sure your hiring practices include diversity, inclusion, and equity. Partner in new ways to scale your impact. I will paraphrase his guidance here, combined with my own experience: Elevate health and wellness of people and planet first. Practice your agility.

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Agile Differentiation Lead Generation Social Media 321

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners. If you plan to charge more than them I need to know how your product will differentiate to command a premium. I won’t need to hire many engineers or customer support staff.

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

The Startup Magazine

JULY 15, 2023

Most firms hire staff prepared to deal with the challenges of two years ago, but fewer have individuals who can respond to those occurring in real-time, let alone ones coming down the pike. These advances mean that security businesses have new opportunities to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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Security Artificial Inteligence Differentiation Dilution 138

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

07:11] With so many tools claiming the same space, how does Databox differentiate itself? [08:43] I should have gotten on the partner train. I started the agency partner program that you passed on and built that up. That partner program is a lot of agencies who you work with still today. What’s your take on that?

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Metrics Analytics Forecast Software Review 75

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Find partners or investors. How do they currently meet your target market’s needs, and how will you differentiate your product or services? But you might want to get an EIN anyway to keep your personal and business taxes separate and to be sure that you can quickly hire when the time comes to expand your business.

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Angel Investor Small Business Business Plan Intellectual Property 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2022

Too often they are also hesitant, inexperienced, and fearful of hiring people or finding a mentor to be the partner they need. As a serious entrepreneur, you need to differentiate these symptoms from the plateaus we all feel from time to time as we jump from one learning curve to the next.

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Burn Rate Differentiation Salary Entrepreneur 329

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

The core idea of the JTBD framework is that customers use products or services to do a job for them (in the US many people say they “hire” the product or service to do the job, but that doesn’t translate too well into UK English so I prefer “use”). An example from Photobox. I hope they seem less nebulous now.

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Customer Framework Differentiation Customer Development 75

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

The Profit First Professional organization is designed to support accountants, bookkeepers, and other financial professionals to substantially differentiate themselves in the market. Mike Michalowicz (07:39): Steven hired Joel because his friend asked him to do him a favor, which is the worst way to hire someone.

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Employee Design Networking Differentiation 91

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

It also attracts shareholders, customers, and business partners. Every business follows its own values, goals, and objectives which differentiate it from its competitors. Logos can either be designed in-house or you can hire professionals to do it for you. Factors Influencing Corporate Image.

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Reputation Differentiation Social Media Employee 126

VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Layoffs and hiring freezes have started. Big tech (Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple) have implemented a temporary hiring freeze. Beyond growth momentum and compelling KPIs, this is where investors will search for true strategic differentiation and a path to profitability. Sequoia’s Adapting to Endure.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation Startup 183

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2023

[02:02] What kind of business and what kind of challenges are they facing that you think makes an ideal fit for a fractional strategic marketing hire? [03:34] 03:34] If somebody hires a CMO, do they feel like they’re also hiring an implement mentor or are they strictly separate functions? [04:57]

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Hiring Programming Email Marketing 67

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

Startups in this category have the know how, mindset, confidence and product differentiation to address the global market from day one. If you need to partner with other businesses to reach customers/users who are consumers. Global from day one (GD1). In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e.

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Singapore Technical Cofounder Product Marketing 178

Transformify

JUNE 5, 2019

Complementing the team with new strategic hires that can bring a fresh look and approach is also recommendable especially if the brand and budget can still attract them. Dependency on a business partner. Looking to hire the best employees for your business? Explore Different Options. Let Transformify help.

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Restful Differentiation Hiring Partner 56

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of partner? Smart is simply not a differentiator. I’ve watched VCs help with valuation support (spreadsheets, comps) on next round financing, participate in M&A meetings, interview senior job candidates – even help terminate tricky senior hires. Picking a VC is hard. Reputation of firm? Commitment.

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Portfolio Chicago Sales Incubator 364

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Complex and high asset divorces will continue to hire divorce attorneys and divorce professionals for years to come. Sure, every business may have their own world-changing differentiator but from the outside they all look the same at which point the main differentiator ends up becoming their brand. Photo Credit: Kurt Bodenstedt.

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Entrepreneur United States Software Review Technical Review 149

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

I quit a very well paid job at Accenture with very little time remaining before making partner and took a risk of having no job security at all. We had raised a $2 million seed round, which meant taking almost no salary so we could afford to hire staff. And that’s what differentiates founders and early employees.

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Founder Salary Startup Early Stage 409

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

We do this not just because it’s the right thing to do but also we believe it will help drive large and differentiated returns. While we would never impose hiring decisions, we aim to reduce the potential impact of unconscious bias for key C-Level and senior roles within a Company. We immediately realized this was a great idea.

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Term Sheet Los Angeles Open Source Portfolio 284

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. A Sense of Purpose.

Leadership 150

Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

If you’re a venture capitalist … you have limited partners that give you money to invest on their behalf, and you’re responsible for giving them outsize returns. Hire around you to fill those weak spots. …. whether that’s partners or employees that you bring on. Nayeem : (Nods.) Nayeem : I didn’t, no.

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Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2020

Budget can be spent on external partners and agencies or on hiring directly within the company to design the brand. You are not sufficiently differentiated from your competition. If your leadership team doesn’t truly prioritize the brand creation or rebrand and dedicate the time and resources necessary, you’re asking to fail.

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Developer PR Differentiation Retention 182

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. It’s been a really exciting time for me personally to be able to see a partner come in with the energy, enthusiasm and new ideas that remind me of myself 6 years ago. I wrote about him here. Startup Advice'

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B2B eCommerce B2C Differentiation 331

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Hiring and retention in such a context can then move away from ‘fit’ to the actual culture with an ‘addition’ to the aspired culture in order to celebrate diversity and more importantly add to the company’s reputation and attractiveness. Reconsidering cultural ‘fit’ in the hiring process. The benefits of ‘cultural add’ over ‘fit’.

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Framework Government Retention Hiring 184

Up and Running

JULY 13, 2022

While the company website may not be the first place you think of using to accomplish this goal—it can play a central role in attracting more investors and partners. Templates can be used by competitors and are often overutilized, making it harder to differentiate your business. Create an investor relations or partner page.

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Elevator Pitch Web Design Affiliate 140

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. One of the world's leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries, founder space was ranked number one, the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and entrepreneur magazines.

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San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97