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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. Only real results count.

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The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs

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The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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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. Revenue Architecture. A comprehensive revenue architecture should be designed to enable a startup to generate and monetize awareness, engagement and usage.

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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. Revenue Architecture. A comprehensive revenue architecture should be designed to enable a startup to generate and monetize awareness, engagement and usage.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. Only real results count.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. Only real results count.

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How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception

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Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue-producing divisions at businesses ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500. Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue producing divisions at businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500. Do you have an employee advisory board? with Tiffani Bova.