Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. The traditional push marketing approach has given way to a new approach that entails engaging customers through social networking, blogs and video. So, that’s why we are excited about 2022 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

It’s always better to be earn money, not just raise it, as money you earn doesn’t dilute your ownership and reassures your investors. You can be the sales guy or gal with all the tools you need at your fingertips ­ email, phone, social networks, etc. In the startup community, it’s all about the network you’ve built.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But to use hashtags effectively, you must do more than just plug them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. When a person adds a hashtag to their post, that hashtag is indexed by social networks and the content becomes more easily searchable and discoverable by others.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2019

While networking with partners in shipping is beneficial, it takes time and effort that some businesses simply do not have. Load boards take away the need to network in the traditional sense, offering options that may not otherwise be available. However, not all smaller businesses have this same luxury. Considerations With Load Boards.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

A 1,000 word blog post is content. A commend to a blog post is content. You can make simple updates like adding links to recent news or reviews, rotating the testimonials you have on your homepage, or posting a new article to your blog. Your website is content. Keep your site’s primary goal in mind.

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View from Seed

APRIL 24, 2019

Considered an “old” technology & channel in the context of the rise of social networking, 2009 was seminal for the email marketing space. Like with email, there is risk that the channel becomes diluted and somewhat tarnished as more companies focus on it. Where we are with SMS I akin to where we were with email a ten years ago.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Aunnie Patton Power writes, “According to the Global Impact Investing Network, 85% of Impact Investors look for market rate or close to market rate returns, but they are cognizant that pushing for a full company exit might have negative impact on the company’s founding mission. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 1, 2009

If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a fan of starting businesses in a non-traditional way. You agonize over whether it is better to take a “A investor&# for 30% dilution or a “nice to have&# investor for 25% and on better terms. Are you a shaper vs. a completer-finisher?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

In the meantime, figure out which of your college buddies works there or network your way to someone who does. For the reader of this blog that owns a young digitally-native brand, my guess is that retail isn’t an actionable part of the strategy yet and you’d be better served optimizing DTC for now. And something always breaks.)

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 21, 2011

That’s why I started the Traffic Generation Cafe blog, focusing on various free traffic generation methods like search engine traffic, social media traffic, networking, as well as how to convert that traffic into subscribers and buyers. In six quick months, my blog grew to be an authority on traffic generation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

Since I know not everybody reads Twitter I thought I’d collect them here in a blog post. Hire when it feels like you're bursting at the seems or missing a critical skill on existing team or have figured out how to scale growth  —  @msuster 6/ Raising capital at very high prices helps avoid short-term dilution.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. I wear it on my sleeve (and on my blog). So, we pivoted from fabulis to Fab.?.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Blog blog archive. We will grant him/her X% fully diluted shares up front, and every time he/she makes an introduction, he/she will vest in 100 shares.” Is there a Jewish network in the Silicon Valley startup scene? Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. A View from the Valley. Quora Answers.

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99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Assuming no dilution (which is not a good assumption), this means you need to sell for $200 million. If tenths of a percent of options for an advisor causes too much dilution, then youve failed anyway. by Behance Network. A large turkey walking on the ground is more likely to show up on the radar than an offer like that.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. If you are a technology consultant and your name should be on this list, add a comment to this blog entry or contact me directly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. And how could they possibly review a blog? If our goal is just to create a blog or a YouTube video as a hobby, there’s no need for this kind of rigorous process.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Youre reading Radical Transparency — a blog brought to you by the team at Keen IO. True to my consulting roots, I made yet another Excel spreadsheet, plugging in the equations and the variables I found in the blogs mentioned above. Michelle Wetzler. Engineer, arranger, communicator, amateur photographer. Follow @michellewetzler.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Service as a bridge to a product business - One of the best ways for young startups to finance their business without any dilution is what I call “customer financing,&# which is mostly only possible in businesses that target businesses rather than consumers. Even tech blogs know this. Yet you can run a conference and mint money.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

At the same time, a direct equity investment (one where the dev shop acquires a share in the company immediately) puts the founders in a potentially uneasy position of having to dilute their company before a product is built. However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   This is most commonly used when a conversion confers superior economic benefits on the preferred stockholder. ·       Anti-dilution provisions that reduce the price of the preferred shares (using a variety of formulas) in the event that the company issues new stock at a lower price. Bootstrapping.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

On my website, www.UpYourService.com , we offer a section called Spread the Word and a comment-rich blog arena where we encourage people to share their experiences. When you offer someone who posts a positive review 500 points, a discount, or a freebie, you’ll dilute the authenticity of their message. Say thank you. They love it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

But using hashtags effectively, especially for business marketing, means doing more than just plugging them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. When crowdspring shares content on social networks, we often use industry hashtags on our content. What is a hashtag and how do you use it?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

As I’ve blogged about in the past, there are positives and negatives to this strategy, but it is a viable option to some founders. The founder sacrificed having potentially “smarter money” around the table, but got the same amount of dollars in the bank for less dilution. Non-institutional Leads.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You simply need to network. Networking is probably the best single word answer. I dont control the companys valuation: if for example the company is privately-held, then the value of equity might be complicated and outside my control (you can dilute equity, reinvest any revenue instead of paying it in dividends, etc.,

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 5, 2013

This post was originally published on the Buffer blog. It can divide your efforts so much that your whole strategy becomes diluted because you’re more focused on the tools you’re using that the results you’re aiming for. Take into account the best times for each network before you publish your content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Processes that, in the Industrial Age, were tightly scripted, with predictable outcomes, must in the Networked World, become adaptable, contextual, and focus on getting measurable (often surprising!) Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. results rather than specific scripted outcomes.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

It’s also a great way to get inspiration for blogging. How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? I would go back to the blog – it’s the #1 ROI if done right. Why do I do it?

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 14, 2016

It is also less understood than it should be, with dilution and control issues being major points of concern. You're placing a bet that the work they do will increase the value of your startup One of the first blog posts I ever wrote was entitled " 100% of Zero is Still Zero." Real world example of valuation Your 80% is now worth $5.6

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 20, 2010

Most people dilute the effectiveness of their social media by mixing messages. Video two is 18 minutes long and lays out a strategy for combining short videos you create (one to two minutes long) with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, your blog and some kind of protected content area where people have to give you their email to access it.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2013

This had a really big effect on brands and organisations who had invested a significant amount in the FB platform, where overnight, their investment in connecting with those who care about their stuff was diluted. Unlike older people using social networks, kids don’t have a commercial imperative to keep them there.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. Finally, I made clear that there are ALWAYS exceptions to the rule.

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I’m supposed to be on vacation this week, so it may be a mistake to try to bang this blog post out. If the goal from day one is to create something that could be very scalable with great software leverage and great network effects, it limits the ways you might go about solving the problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. Entrepreneurs want less cash because they want to control dilution and preserve exit options at lower prices.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

Start slow and build – Unless you’ve got a full time IT staff it’s best to pick a marketplace and try to build your chops one at a time rather than jumping in and distributing your resources in ways that will dilute your time and attention. Go for Gold seller status – Every marketplace has some algorithm that rewards the best sellers.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Most of my blog posts are focused on keeping you out of trouble.This one is focused on that "oh, s**t" moment of extraordinary success that, hopefully, some of you will someday have. Shorten the aging process and dilute the product with more water, cutting the alcoholic content.Which, of course, will affect the taste. He's been there.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I guess you can make the argument that the founders keep more of the company under the take angel money at a $1M pre-money valuation, but the stars need to be aligned and it is much more likely that initial VC funding in the angel scenario would be at a lower valuation with significantly more dilution. Blog Archive. My Blog List.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

By getting-out and attending conferences and meet-ups; by blogging; by reading and commenting on other blogs; and by engaging on Twitter and other social media sites. How is this done? By banging on doors. In short, it takes tenacity and resourcefulness – qualities that every great entrepreneur possesses.

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