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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Press is something you should do once you know your activation / retention metrics are good. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

We had to raise some seed capital. So we had managed to provide a really modern healthcare experience with very high NPS score, very high retention, while still having a very strong provider experience. So we quickly showed them what we thought should be available to do vaccine distribution on scale. ER : Really smart.