YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Hire a professional, or at the least, use inexpensive design software like Tailor Brands to create a great logo yourself. Thankfully, this should be a relief to most entrepreneurs! So believe me when I say this: When you’re first starting a business, no one trusts you. A premium logo matters to new prospects. Don’t skimp on a logo.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2019

Take some time to develop a clear hiring process to advertise roles and assess and onboard new team members. It will help them get up to speed quickly with using your systems, product training and sales techniques. Maybe you could reduce the amount you have to order in one go, or spread out payments. Great people. Customer service.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing. Ralph Waldo Emerson. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. You can’t hand people a dry plan and expect them to “grok” the genius of your opportunity. As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Or maybe you hope to expand your services to underserved areas or specific populations based on your expertise. There are a few different types of business plans , depending on how you intend to use it. Mention your funding needs.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR), a Silicon Valley phrase which says one thing but means another. Depending on the size of the venture firm they may have one to three EIR’s who stay an average of a year or so.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur. By George Bilbrey.

Software Review 67

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.) From 1946 until 1950, Stanford’s Electronic Research Lab conducted basic research in microwave tubes. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds military to rearm and mobilize.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

I learned many of my negotiation techniques through experience. And negotiation technique is one of the few areas on my MBA that was truly new information to me by the time I had attended. We like to short-hand it, as in, “What’s our BATNA?” We all think we’re good at them. In many cases it’s not.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Ramon Ray , a successful entrepreneur, speaker, best selling author, and one of the country’s top small business experts, meets with thousands of small business owners every year. This is the most comprehensive guide online to creating a strong brand identity for your business or organization in 2019. What is branding? style guide.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I I've been so focused on electronics hardware. I am Eric Ries.

Technical Review 68

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. I wish I had done this years ago.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 5, 2011

They really should have hired my advice and saved themselves the headache. I’m sure this is not the exact name for this technique, but it simply involves knocking a few pennies off a price to make it look cheaper. Hello there! This article is the second in the series on Maximising Profits with good pricing strategies. and the $19.87

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 5, 2011

They really should have hired my advice and saved themselves the headache. I’m sure this is not the exact name for this technique, but it simply involves knocking a few pennies off a price to make it look cheaper. Hello there! This article is the second in the series on Maximising Profits with good pricing strategies. and the $19.87

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Many of my friends have been in the same position, so heres my best advice , below. Call this Version 1.0.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers. Learn more… Saturday edit: Wow, quite a response to this. Sunday edit : Still going!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! (As always, this is a fictionalized account; Im blending several people Ive known into a single composite. And please forgive the fact that I use male pronouns to describe the archetype. But life is not easy, either.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. Why listen? Transcript.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. As an entrepreneur, the basic question you must ask yourself is whether the prospective board member can help you achieve the upside – and also manage the downside. HOW SHOULD I SELECT MY BOARD MEMBERS?

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. Successful entrepreneurs have a bias toward action, as illustrated in Tom and Huck. infoChachkie. Thanks for visiting!

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company. They will then peel back another layer, and tell you that the reason those salespeople missed their targets was because they were not handed the required number of trials from marketing.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 22, 2019

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Here are the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- 1- Four things. Photo Credit: Katie Horgan. When it comes to motivation there are four things that immediately come to mind.

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