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Entrepreneur Raef Hamaed On The Professional Impact Of Personal Growth

YoungUpstarts

Specializing in fertility and animal care in the pharmacy realm, Hamaed’s unwavering focus on patient education has allowed him to provide unprecedented customer service. While he worked to grow his business steadily, Hamaed attributed much of this growth to his own simultaneous personal growth. Success Starts Within.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. redemption, revenue share, etc.) Liquidity is achieved through a predefined mechanism (e.g.,

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How and Why You Should Validate Your App Idea Before You Build

Up and Running

It worked by enticing app users to recycle, which earned them points they could redeem for rewards from local businesses. The end user of the application was those who recycled, however, the recycling and reward redemption process required partnerships with recycling facilities, local businesses, and government agencies.

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Integrating SMS into Existing Marketing Efforts

Up and Running

Integrating your keyword and short code* into your existing marketing materials allows customers and prospects to discover and opt-in to your SMS distribution list. Customer Appreciation or Loyalty Club. We include an expiration date so we can control the redemption. How am I defining a “pre-engaged customer?”

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Small Business and Startups: What Would You do Differently?

crowdSPRING Blog

Redemption is all around us every wherever we look, whether as a plot-line in a movie or in the world of politics. Sometimes these mistakes have a negligible impact on the business, but other times can be profound. Don’t try to hide your mistake or the impact of it from your team, your customers, or your investors.

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Ardent War Story 6: Listen more, talk less

Steve Blank

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. I had needed to ask customers four simple questions.

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Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

Professor VC

Both companies were relatively well capitalized, building peer to peer payments businesses and spending a significant amount of their funding on customer acquisition. It takes time for the business to catch up to these market expectations and valuation. Most never make it there. Back to that PayPal merger.

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