Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One.” How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Ethical and diversity boundaries. No historical baggage.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 27, 2014

It was a huge learning experience for me personally, and between that moment and my time vetting writers as head of content for HubSpot (I reviewed over 100 candidates in a year), there are a few changes to your hiring approach I’d recommend: 1. The third step is to look at their cover letter. Nope, no resume yet! ” Wow!

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

10-Number of the alphabetical letter representing my name. I came up with the name — 26th Letter LLC — as a way to address both needs. The 26th letter of the English alphabet, of course, is Z, the first letter of Zach (that’s my name)! Thanks to Zach Messler, 26th Letter LLC ! #11- on Go Daddy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2024

In big letters the purchase order said, “FULLY CANCELABLE.” And then we sent it to the head of the group that asked us for the prototype. We listed all the features we had demoed that had gotten the users excited and threw in the features the technical evaluators had suggested. And we listed our price.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2017

by David Midgley, Head of Operations at Total Processing. The most secure passwords are 8+ characters long, with a mix of lower and upper case letters, numbers and symbols. David Midgley is Head of Operations at Total Processing. Tip: Ensure that your customer uses a complex password for their account.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Heading into this kind of unstable environment, a focus on the fundamentals will be key, according to Jo. For instance, doubling down on your customer service may drive word of mouth outcomes that effectively boost the effectiveness of other marketing activities, or a targeted letter could deliver a new favourite customer.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One ”. How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Ethical and diversity boundaries. No historical baggage.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Stripes, letter stacking, fades and geometric shapes were popular logo types in logo design last year. Your typography and lettering should be as tuned in to your branding as the rest of your logo. These fonts feature unexpected negative space (or splits) in the letters while maintaining the text’s readability.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 29, 2018

EVP Head of Global Cities for @ Mastercard and Former CTO of NYC and CIO of SF. Read all about Miguel’s Pokémon GO dream in this Medium.com post, “ Open letter to the creators of Pokémon GO. it’s the dream for many great thinkers and doers like Miguel A. yes, I’m being serious ” My dream come true!!! ????????

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2019

by Aaron Beashel, Head of Marketing at Qwilr. Cover letters may seem insignificant, but they can make an impact in the event that you’re sending a business proposal. Make the right impression by crafting a great proposal cover letter. What Are Proposal Letters, And Why Should You Use Them? When To Use Cover Letters.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2019

You’ve probably seen a letterhead on a letter even if you didn’t know the formal term for it. Letterhead refers to the business name and contact information at the “head” of the letter. It helps prove that your business actually sent the letter instead of someone printing it up and mailing it off. The Labor Savings.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2020

Walmart has a mission called COE, every meeting begins with a discussion of these three letters. Photo Credit: Peter Head. Thanks to Peter Head, Japanoscope ! #19- Their motto is to encourage those that fail as their attempt shows they are capable of finding new opportunities but need another chance to succeed. 18- Nintendo.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2019

This is the space you own in your customer’s head. You don’t just nail the letter of the promise, but the spirit of the promise. Here they are and some real-world examples of companies that get them right: 1. BIG: Your brand promise must be big enough to matter. Make it a big space, a big promise.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2014

The prospect of keeping straight all of the contracts, notes, licensing documents, reports, letters, and lists can be frustrating enough to make some startups second guess why they’re doing this in the first place. As your head count increases, the stacks of files will no doubt keep pace.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

My business name — Brought to you by the letter K — is my homage to Sesame Street. Each episode was sponsored by letters and numbers, and at the end of each episode, one of the muppets would say, This episode has been brought to you by the letters __. And then they’d talk about the letter.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

skimking.com with your resume and a short cover letter. To Apply: Please email brian@partakegolf.com with your resume and cover letter. To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Chris Chuter at chris@building10.com To Apply: Please email Greg Farrenkopf at Greg.F@skimking.com SkimKing SocialMatters.ai SocialMatters.ai

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2017

And until you connect to what is true, you won’t know what to do — whether you’re afraid of reading a dunning letter from the IRS, picking up a call from a disgruntled client, confronting an underperforming employee, giving a speech in public, or saying no after people start to raise their voices. Decide on a plan and follow through on it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

You should see the results in the cover letters. If after a job posting like that the person is still sending the generic bullshit cover letter, you know they’re not for you. One exception to this rule: If the cover-letter is truly wonderful , that’s a rare, great sign and you can probably skip right to the phone interview.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 22, 2021

This can sound like a confusing concept to wrap your head around, so let’s use an example: INPUT – We enter words and letters into a document using a keyboard. This leads to an output that is beneficial to us and is based on the input we gave it. PROCESSING – We can format the text, change its colour, font, size, and so on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. This has been a very welcome addition. “Without you none of this would be possible.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Ito found a consultant who obtained a letter from the Japanese financial services agency stating that PayPal could launch its service immediately so long as the site wasn’t in Japanese; English-language websites weren’t legally considered to be operating in Japan. “If One introduction later, Reid was talking with him about the situation.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 21, 2018

In non-crypto notable news, Walmart wrote a letter to its lettuce suppliers mandating that directly suppliers conform to its blockchain based traceability platform by January 31, 2019, and indirect suppliers get on board by September 20, 2019.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It’s interesting when you’re dual-hatted as a service chief and a combatant commander, you get to write yourself a letter saying, hey, dummy, why did you do that? If you look at the domain and where it’s headed, and where industry is headed, there are a lot of opportunities to come up with a hybrid type of architecture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

and if you haven’t seen 20 Feet From Stardom , which this founder talks about in his letter to Seth, you must. It’s the puppy-who-was-kicked-and-now-walks-around-with-his-head-down syndrome. My friend Seth Levine covered this well in his blog post on “ Handling Rejection ” which you should also read.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2012

With a strong emphasis on values, Pixar stood up against “bullies” like Jeffrey Katzenberg (previous head of Walt Disney Studios) and did what was right rather than popular. Dare to Jump in the Water and Make Waves. In this section, we’re also given 41 ideas to boost our innovative processes.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

In non-crypto notable news, Walmart wrote a letter to its lettuce suppliers mandating that directly suppliers conform to its blockchain based traceability platform by January 31, 2019, and indirect suppliers get on board by September 20, 2019. ” Complete Newsletter linked here: The FPV Blockchain Weekly #30, September 29, 2018.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In non-crypto notable news, Walmart wrote a letter to its lettuce suppliers mandating that directly suppliers conform to its blockchain based traceability platform by January 31, 2019, and indirect suppliers get on board by September 20, 2019. ” Complete Newsletter linked here: The FPV Blockchain Weekly #30, September 29, 2018.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The nightmare scenario for founders is that they are heads-down and working on their startup for a number of years and finally get some headlines on a successful financing or exit. Then the prior employer rears its ugly head and claims that it actually owns the startup’s IP.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter “E” with a swoop over it. And with that same massive leap of creativity Microsoft decided that their logo would have their product name and the letter “E’ with a swoop over it. While I understand.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

But when Gmail went down two weeks ago, people’s pipe dreams of heading home for the day were busted in 50 minutes – because the Reliability Team at Google had processes in place to thwart uncertainties. While Yahoo! Their community manager had left one month before the downtime, so it didn’t seem like queries were being attended to.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2023

After Einstein’s letter, Roosevelt appointed an Advisory Committee on Uranium. Roosevelt’s decision gave the United States an 18-month head start for employing science in the war effort. He headed up a group of theorists working with experimentalists to calculate how many pounds of U-235 and Plutonium were needed for a bomb.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

It took me a year and lots of looking at puddles on farms for the dim lightbulb to go on over my head. I left school and joined the Air Force during Vietnam, and Michael and I kept in touch via letters – me telling him about adventures in the military, fighter planes, electronics and foreign countries. His wife and the kids survived.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Few events are scarier than getting a cease and desist letter for a small business owner (unless it’s this one from Jack Daniels ). Once you get over the relative shock, however, it’s time to approach it head-on. Check the claims in the cease and desist letter. The letter might also demand payment for some kind of infringement.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

He just had his Mitt Romney moment and his name will forever be etched in the collective consciousness of the tech community for this terribly insensitive and tone deaf letter to the Wall Street Journal. The headline of Mr. Perkins letter to the WSJ? I’ll let his recent letter speak for itself. ”". But let me try.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This letter will be forwarded to you and usually have a reason code, which you can then look up. If you dispute the chargeback, you will write a rebuttal letter in which you’ll argue that the original transaction was legitimate. Before heading to arbitration, you will want to make sure that you’re quite confident about your case.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 10, 2014

Tesla vs. Target: Which CEO Wrote the Better Open Letter? Creative Handwriting Lettering Typography Examples | Graphic Design Junction – crowdspring.co/1fVLIHe. 7 Reasons the TSA Sucks [written by the head of security for the world''s safest airport] – crowdspring.co/19TybPZ. – crowdspring.co/Kd9Mem.

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