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Beware The Consultant

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Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Their story, market positioning, products, etc. At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. Pyramid Power. John Greathouse.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. As the product got better, we could see the rate getting closer and closer to the mythical “ one percent rule.&#