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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

In some cases, Founders are building an Advisory Board with the purpose of padding their investor deck. I side more with Mark Suster who says : “advisory boards are an expensive equity proposition for merely introductions.” Investors discount this. And it can hurt you if it’s purely cosmetic. That’s great advice.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users).

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users).

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Role of a Mentor in Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Leigh McAlpin, Classic Architectural Group ! . #13- We have a handful of trusted mentors we utilize sort of like an advisory board. 13- Nurtures talents. Photo Credit: Jeremy Yamaguchi. As the owner and CEO of my own small business, I have taken up the role of mentor for a lot of my employees.