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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. It would be great if we could have a sort of advisory board, and we ended up inviting five other people, that happened to be from all over the country, that also have software companies, to a joint meeting in Las Vegas that we were going to spend a day talking about our businesses. Jason: Wow.

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Transcript of Building a Fanocracy Around Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

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. It’s been downloaded thousands of times, commented on hundreds of times. I’m a Harry Potter geek. You’re a live music, Grateful Dead geek.