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Taking Other People’s Money Changes Your Life

Startup Professionals Musings

Many startups have an advisory board of sympathetic people with industry expertise, or people who enjoy mentoring, or people who donate a few services on the come. Once you take investment, you will also have a fiduciary board, with the responsibility of making the company successful. All problems will go away.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Gelie: Resorts here in Phoenix. I’m actually very fortunate because I’ve had the same employees pretty much since day one. In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall. Jason: Wow. Where do you do that? Jason: Oh wow. That’s cool. Gelie: Glad you think it’s cool.

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Transcript of Building a Fanocracy Around Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

They had just started the company, they only had eight employees and no customers yet. He invited me within a couple of days to join to be the first member of the HubSpot advisory board, and I’ve been with them ever since. CEOs who hire for passion genuinely get better employees to work for them. ” David M.