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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

And I made a version of this company-wide speech to our employees: “Look. If you don’t address it they’re minds are shaped by competitor PR. Don’t underestimate the impact of good PR on your competitors. Good PR can help slow down your competitors initiatives as they naively try to follow you.

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Post-Seed Funding Checklist for Founder/CEOs

Genuine VC

Funding Announcement Figure out your PR strategy for announcing the round to get your plan in order. Foundation for New Employee Hires Formulate and socialize with the Board acceptable compensation bands (both salary and equity options) for new employees.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

You scraped together enough for an angel round but not enough to pay yourself a real salary. In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How many employees would a medium-sized business have in your definition? Jason: If I’m managing my whole business with this tool, I don’t have 100 employees. you can’t have one employee because meetings are just too easy and you don’t really have them formally. You can’t have 5,000 employees.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. ’ Maybe this article is a little too simplistic, a fairy tale.