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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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8 Secrets To Pushing Your Startup Ahead Of The Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Have topics.

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Money in the Bank vs Burn

VC Adventure

With the markets down significantly, financings (at least at the later stages) slowing down, and inflation and interest rates on the rise, perhaps now is a good time to talk about your burn rate. Your underlying business metrics should.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it. Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 11comments: Peter Severin said.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet? And people are expensive (especially in the Bay Area), so some Pre-Seed financing goes towards recruiting the right minimal set of people who can help to build the product.