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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. It was all technical. Technical founder.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

we had no revenue. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. How do you split revenue?

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Everyone wanted to work in finance. I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Match students with relevant startup internships. “CEO is the new Analyst.”. Everyone wants to work in tech startups.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. Like the ability to spend X dollars on advertising and gain Y dollars in revenue or something like that. Patrick: How close did he get?

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. I hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since. Thanks to Ostap Bosak, Royal Fur ! #17 Image Credit: Matthew Multerer.