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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

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And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care). That means avoiding a pitch to a software-centric publication about your biotech startup. Don’t pitch the real estate reporter on an app that has nothing to with housing.

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Seed-Stage Startups: Beware the “Stickiness Squeeze”

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This forces companies to be more discplined on the hiring front (and likely much less competitive with bigger companies —  see The Information’s great post on this ) which will then poentially slow progress towards the key milestones needed to raise a Series A. It’s very different with a $1 million seed round.

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Accelerator Spotlight: I Have This Friend

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Beyond offering disruptive and fair pricing, we’re becoming the go-to, trusted one-stop shop to discover and hire the talent clients always wanted, but didn’t know how to find and didn’t think they could afford. For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions.