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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Member of the Advisory Board. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Member of the Advisory Board. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . For more on this, see An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack. Lastly, gather feedback.

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Member of the Advisory Board. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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7 Strategies For Anticipating Future Customer Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry. Of course, you may not have the time or desire to read through every document in your space, but it’s not so hard to find and follow some key influencer blogs on social media.

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3 Customer Retention Strategies All Businesses Can Benefit From

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Invite Loyal Customers to Join an Advisory Board. To take this a level further, you could consider asking long-term customers to join an “advisory board” for your business. In addition, the occasional “thank you for being a customer” goes a long way, especially if you include a discount code with the message.

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due. the company had.