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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

I’ve recruited an Advisory Board including officials from the CIA and the State Department; leaders from major family offices; and a former major party Presidential candidate. . We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. I’m a VC with 8 years of experience; more about me here. This work is unpaid.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

I’ve recruited an Advisory Board including officials from the CIA and the State Department; leaders from major family offices; and a former major party Presidential candidate. . We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. I’m a VC in New York with 8 years of experience; more about me here.

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Hanging Out In Pioneer Square

Feld Thoughts

I’ve built this trip around Techstars Seattle Demo, a bunch of time at PSL, and a Moz board meeting. We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board. In addition to being LPs in PSL Ventures , we are major investors in PSL Studio and I’m on the board.

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Technical Product Elegance is Not a Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. Make sure they are real customers, and that they get the whole story (not just a technical demo), including price and channel. Then listen carefully to the feedback.

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Entrepreneurs Need Focus on Their Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. Make sure they are real customers, and that they get the whole story (not just a technical demo), including price and channel. Then listen carefully to the feedback.

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Some Startups Forget to Validate a Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. Make sure they are real customers, and that they get the whole story (not just a technical demo), including price and channel. Then listen carefully to the feedback.

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How to Evaluate an Offer from a Startup Incubator

The Startup Lawyer

Thus, if your startup is willing to give a couple points to a few advisory board members, determine how much the incubator’s mentorship (and introductions) equates to an advisory board and assign a percentage. It’s not really a demo day if only friends and family show up.

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