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5 Business Activities You Can Outsource To Set Your Startup In Motion

YoungUpstarts

One of the best ways to save both money and time is to outsource part of your work to professionals who can help you deliver without having to go through the process of hiring someone full time. Marketing agencies have many areas of expertise, from search engine optimization, to branding, affiliate marketing and lead generation.

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5 Tips To Build A First Website That Will Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

You’re in discussions with strategic partners and potential beta customers. Call out strategic relationships with business partners, research institutions, or industry groups. To create a website that becomes a useful element in the company’s lead generation process, understand the back-end. Keep it simple.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Now is the time to formalize lead-generation efforts, and initiate efforts to maximize the conversion rate to sales closure. Some startups hire more people to delay automation, or spend money wildly on new tools for the future.

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How To Hire Your First Employee

YoungUpstarts

This is not a bad thing per se and could be an indication of more solopreneurs finding enough success to grow their business into something larger by hiring people to work for them. Hiring employees can be time consuming and an expensive process. Your first employee is in many ways a partner in your business.

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