Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Early stage research and development won’t excite angels. Don’t expect angels to invest in work-at-home schemes, gambling sites or debt-collection type business proposals. Other notoriously risky or specialized businesses usually avoided by angels include brick-and-mortar retail, restaurants, telemarketing and consulting.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is one such domain that is dotted with misinformation. You should shape your content around semantics and natural language because they will play a crucial role in determining how pages rank in the search engine results page (SERP). This problem often plagues popular, hot topics.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 2, 2024

I think a big question facing early stage investors is: are you a hammer? In the prior era of early stage investing, pre-seeds and seeds “fit” into neat buckets slotted in ahead of the neat buckets of series A’s and B’s. Some folks will continue to define stages in narrow terms.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have an edge in the highly competitive world of early stage investing that comes from some combination of your experience, industry knowledge, and personal network. We are conducting a broad and inclusive search for this role. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. A Final Note.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup. The challenge is that LinkedIn is not that great with finding people who were at early-stage startups. Then you search for the people who were in marketing there early on. For me, I'd use LinkedIn.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Transcript of Creating Content that Ranks in Local Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. And they with a couple other consultants in the network have written a book we’re going to talk about today called Content Marketing for Local Search: Create Content That Google Loves and Prospects Devour.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Running a business will likely mean simultaneously juggling between different projects, especially during the early stages. Once your startup begins to grow, you might want to hire a professional with more experience in finances to focus on this part of your business. Project planning. Leadership skills.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms. Today, you can start a web/mobile/cloud startup for $500,000 and have money left over. Here’s why.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Implement clear product categorization, intuitive search functionality, and a streamlined checkout process. Thanks to Steven Light, Avenue B ! #15-

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

The partner most obsessed with the startup lifestyle tests the water by going to work in an early-stage startup, similar to one they might hope to start someday. Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

You will need to have an impressive management team to support your search for venture capital. Each firm can also focus on a particular stage of investment, from seed and early-stage funding all the way through to Series C and beyond. Venture capital companies are most interested in companies with disruptive ideas.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

For those of us who’ve invested in early stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem. There are many ways to project the value of a company for purposes of pricing an investment, but all rely upon the revenue and profit projections of the entrepreneur as a starting point.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Business funding can help entrepreneurs tackle some of the financial problems at an early stage. There are still numerous investors searching for an opportunity to earn a return, it’s all highly influenced in your search for how to pitch your business idea. The Role of Social Media Platforms.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

In this article, we will discuss why it is important to understand the whole startup stages concept before you start a business to get the most benefit. Early Stage. This startup stage starts from the day you decide to work on a startup idea. Here is the complete list of points available in early stage startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Governance Moreso than a lot of actual VCs, a lot of high-net-worth folks tend to ask for board representation—even in the super early stages of a company where boards tend to be a little less formal. Paul and Rony focused on doing one thing and doing it better than anyone else—returning great job search results.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, searching Facebook for “SaaS marketers” yields the following Groups: You can also search Reddit to find relevant subreddits: Your clients may hang out in different communities than the examples above, but this is the time to put your detective hat on and look for popular conversations happening within each community.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

Many second-time founders take a more deliberate, academic approach to searching for a problem. This mentality is good for keeping the raw, early-stage muscles in shape, and sometimes these side projects actually lead to something much more substantial. The second time around, it’s much harder to recapture this authenticity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

The advantage is no time and effort searching and preparing for the other alternatives, and you don’t have to encumber yourself or give up control of your company. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. Friends and family. Bartering services for equity.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

What is the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) value of new domains? A controlled, PPC marketing study testing the use of different domain names to promote diamond jewelry found that new domain names have a dramatic impact on search engine results. New opportunities for website marketing campaigns and strategies become possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

The first step is to set your criteria, including a match for your sector type and stage, and then proactively seek out and contact the best candidates: Review profiles on professional social media sites. Searching LinkedIn, for example, is a must for contemporary entrepreneurs. But don’t wait for them to contact you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The partner most obsessed with the startup lifestyle tests the water by going to work in an early-stage startup, similar to one they might hope to start someday. Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

To get your new business on a solid footing at an early stage, your online marketing strategy needs to be supported by the twin pillars of content and social. Publishing high-quality content consistently can help your website become more search-engine friendly and boost your credibility among prospects.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

There are countless strategies to consider employing here, including search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC) advertising, email marketing, and even traditional advertising are all viable options. . In the early stages of your business’s development, you’re going to notice dead weight. Memorability. Dead Weight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The first step is to set your criteria, including a match for your sector type and stage, and then proactively seek out and contact the best candidates: Review profiles on professional social media sites. Searching LinkedIn, for example, is a must for contemporary entrepreneurs. But don’t wait for them to contact you.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2024

This person, often the founder in early-stage companies and beyond, is the originator and keeper of the vision, leading all others below and the board above as willing believers in the vision advanced. Then who is most important? The most important person in a corporation usually is and should be the CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. This means your whole startup effort will appear as very early stage for investors, and will likely not be adequately tuned for customers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw. Where Did We Go Wrong?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

The advantage is no time and effort searching and preparing for the other alternatives, and you don’t have to encumber yourself or give up control of your company. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. Friends and family. Bartering services for equity.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Building on my post on ‘ Advice for startups in a downturn (May 2022 edition) ‘, this week I continued to follow with interest the impact of the current correction on startups and venture capital, particularly in early stage. The key messages: “This is not a time to panic. Who is actually pulling back from investing?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Using buyer personas works well in the early stages of contact, but once the person gives you details, create their experience based on specifics. For example, if the user searched for the term “organization,” you would offer them a discount on an organizational system or send them to other content covering the same topic.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Pinterest and Visual Search. Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. As search engines get smarter and start working in more relevant social influence paramaters (+1′s, Facebook Likes, Klout , etc.), Raul Pla , SimpleWifi and UseABoat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. This means your whole startup effort will appear as very early stage for investors, and will likely not be adequately tuned for customers.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. For negotiation with providers, consider Buyer.co. Alpaca VC shares their Master Agency List. AskAnything.VC

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