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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

One needs to evaluate their go-to-market strategy, distribution channels, scalability, execution team, and so on at this time. Syndicates Those in charge of a syndicate are called “syndicate leads.” The earliest investors in a business are usually syndication.

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. What’s inside will differ depending on the channel or marketing campaign. Content channels.

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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups

Steve Blank

Therefore we needed them to think and learn about two parts of a startup; 1) ideation - how to create new ideas and 2) customer development – how do they test the validity of their idea (is it the right product, customer, channel, pricing, etc.). The semester concluded with pizza and ice cream.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

While the free version does have limitations (supports only one user and five social profiles) its ability to allow you to manage your basic social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc in an easy-to-use manner is great. Hootsuite is a great resource for the budding entrepreneur or new business.

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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Thus it is always a question of what you qualify for, and what you are willing to give up, to turn your dream idea into a viable business.

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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

Where online platforms once reigned supreme for business-to-consumer communication, businesses are quickly learning that mobile is the new and more prominent channel through which to make a connection with consumers. Parents are putting their kids’ sports schedules on custom mobile apps.

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Gil Penchina’s Army: How AngelList’s Largest Syndicate Plans to Lead A Rounds, Hire An Associate & Keep VCs Honest

Hunter Walker

But he’s raised the largest syndicate on AngelList , turning himself effectively into a one-man fund for, if not the masses, at least the 270 people who have already committed nearly $3.4m AngelList syndicate has surprised some people, you’ve been angel investing for quite a while, right? penchina#syndicate.

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