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Post-Seed Funding Checklist for Founder/CEOs

Genuine VC

Funding Announcement Figure out your PR strategy for announcing the round to get your plan in order. Proactively solicit input to create a board deck template and metrics dashboard to present at the first Board Meeting, so that you’re able to set a strong in-control tone.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

You scraped together enough for an angel round but not enough to pay yourself a real salary. In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

What I mean by that is startups nowadays that raise money have absolutely ludicrous metrics. So in other words, the bottom line is you’re not prepared right now in terms of the market, the product, the metrics anyway for VC, and it doesn’t sound like you’d be happy with VC. Does that make sense?