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APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. Clark (RelayRides): Business school is very broad.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Dirty Secret #1: An early-stage startup’s design actually does matter. It probably shouldn’t be the case, but the look and feel and polish of your materials makes a big difference for early-stage investors. But at the early stages, it’s surprisingly impactful.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

The best kind of traffic to a web based business is organic traffic. When seed investing was less mature, there was a high degree of deal trading among early stage investors. Similarly, the best kind of deal flow for a VC is organic deal flow. I tend to think of this as a spectrum.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a guest post from Stephano Kim , former co-founder of Web 1.0 For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. At a startup, especially in the early stages, there’s always something to optimize, something to fix, and something to change and improve upon.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

But whether you are trying to build daily, habitual products for business users like Slack or InVision or trying to reach truly mass market consumers like Wayfair, Jet, or Chewy, there is someone in the Guild who has faced this challenge at the early stages of a business and at scale. Fatma Collins, VP & Head of Product, Artsy.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing. Preferably both. Don’t be cheap. Two meetings should be enough. Be decisive and straightforward.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing. Preferably both. Don’t be cheap. Two meetings should be enough. Be decisive and straightforward.

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