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8 Ways To Get Off The Ground With Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. Come with a product built and a proven business model. Simplicity is preferred at this stage.

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

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Tony Hsieh Without a clear purpose, a startup can meander along without much momentum. in business we can create much deeper connections with our audience and give our startups a better chance of success.

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

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. Where do you land on that spectrum?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models.

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Putting yourself out there! (part 2)

Austin Startup

What better way to test your product and business model than in front of 200 people within your target sector! I was to be the alternate so if any of the other 3 startups pitching couldn’t present, then I would take their spot. Sprung in stealth mode! Startup Land, Austin-style Originally published at Wantu.

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

Hunter Walker

Well, we frequently diligence those deals after the fact – the startups we think we should have seen during their fundraise but for one reason or another – in order to better understand why we didn’t find each other. How are these learnings actionable?

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Don’t Jump Too Soon: How To Properly Pace Business Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Startups that successfully scale understand they can’t just throw warm bodies at their problems — they often need to recreate processes that got them to where they are today. Despite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth.