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How to Build a Startup Team

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be the manager and product developer). Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. In a new venture, it’s typical that each team member will likely wear multiple hats (i.e.

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How Sproutbox Accelerator Helps Its Companies to Succeed

David Teten

SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development. We aim to focus our operational involvement on finding the product-market fit.

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How Sproutbox Accelerator Helps Its Companies to Succeed

David Teten

SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development. We aim to focus our operational involvement on finding the product-market fit.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. These companies produced over $52 billion dollars in sales in 2005, and employed 450,000 workers that year. Take the example of Indianas Passageways.