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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

agile sales process? should you email before you call? How much to compensate them? how to structure the comp plan. How do you get access to customers? getting past the assistant. when to call. is it OK to call an exec on his mobile phone. how to handle intros. What is your sales process? call high or call low? how do you forecast?

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. Id also welcome nominations over email , if you have someone you think is a good fit for the event. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. Do you have a Bose radio at home? How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. Get Constant Contact or Mail Chimp and create an email newsletter for interested folks, including the press. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture.

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How to Model Your Marketing Against the Product Lifecycle

ConversionXL

Customers should feel special at every touch point; from interacting with them on social media, to personalizing emails and creating targeted ads. Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Rapid penetration. Consistency.

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