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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us.

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10 ways you’ll probably f**k up your startup — Spook Studio — Medium

in business we can create much deeper connections with our audience and give our startups a better chance of success. I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. By focusing on the ‘why?’

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

There are goals set for marketing, but our sales team also relies on more traditional tactics like networking, cold calling, going to events, getting word-of-mouth referrals and those types of leads, so they’re not as dependent on marketing yet. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important.

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A Small Change Seed Funds Can Make To Their Websites To Help Founders (and Themselves)

Hunter Walker

They can help direct our proactive networking – ie maybe there’s a university campus where Homebrew isn’t well-known so we try to figure out how to solve that problem. . How are these learnings actionable?

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

But also think about it in terms of business model. All of these early-stage companies, you’re taking a risk on a bet; a bet of a future market, a bet on what demand will look like, a bet on how this will evolve. It’s part of the reason why people like network effects as a way of doing this.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

But also think about it in terms of business model. All of these early-stage companies, you’re taking a risk on a bet; a bet of a future market, a bet on what demand will look like, a bet on how this will evolve. It’s part of the reason why people like network effects as a way of doing this.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.