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What Are Some Organic Marketing Strategies for Startups? 

The Startup Magazine

When you’re in the early stages of your startup, it can be difficult to find funds or validate spending money on marketing and advertising or to even find the time to plan out your organic marketing strategies. Social media posts. Social Media Primes: Learn to Use It . Image Source: [link]. The good news? Guest posts.

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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

Here are five essential, efficient ways to eliminate guesswork and make your startup a success on social media. Strategy Adopted: Leveraging Social Media Analytics. On social media, you can pinpoint an audience in real-time. Before you can afford staff dedicated to social media, spread the duties around.

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Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I was reminded of this yesterday watching my friend Justin Kan on Snapchat with this 10-second reminder, “No matter how much you raise at your company you’ll end up spending it in 12–24 months” https://medium.com/media/8594cb16d022a083932b0f3d60b79ebd/href I would probably amend it to say 12–18 months. People do what people do.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. So we first turned to solve the question of how to better meet the needs of our growing customer base of large brands and media companies.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Funding is not an indicator of success, irrespective of the impression that you might get from the news and media. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. The seed stage is focused on building the core team, product optimization, exploring avenues for monetization. ?

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How to Successfully Approach Trade-Offs as an Entrepreneur in 2021

Up and Running

Get your reputation together for that core service/product, and then branch out once you have loyal customers that have become advocates and spread your message throughout their personal networks. The decision to invest in efficiency boosters versus building out a team in the early stages is another potential tradeoff to consider.

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I Would Only Fund an Entrepreneur with High Integrity

Both Sides of the Table

I’m proud to say that most early-stage VCs that I know really do care about making money ethically. So consider integrity on my personal list of attributes required to raise money from a reputable, early-stage VC. Unfortunately people with low integrity can be successful and can raise money from investors.