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Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled

Austin Startup

Employers who are honest will tell you it’s mostly one thing: curation; various filters (admissions, testing, etc.) Pragmatically, accelerators offer entrepreneurs a curated bundle of resources (a network of entrepreneurs and advisors, faster access to investors, education, some initial money, etc.) It depends on whom you ask.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Fundraising: Advice From Founders to Investors

Austin Startup

They reached out to us but their investments are for a later stage than where Homads is at. The reason why they have such a great reputation is that even though we weren’t the right fit, they introduced us to investors that would be more likely to fit our stage. super classy!”

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

We have spent a great deal of effort to pull together some of the smartest experts in the money-raising field, and the blog is carefully curated to be useful specifically to entrepreneurs seeking funding. Among the contributors are Quora regulars including Tim Berry , Antone Johnson , Martin Zwilling and me.

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July Roundup: Why Do You Need Marketing And Branding Experts

Brandanew

b) Branding experts will ensure that a re-branding at a later stage is avoided. b) Being open to curating content- even from competition. In my first posts, I talked about the need of working with marketing and branding experts. c) Constant testing. d) Maintaining coherence on all channels. e) Being authentic and human!

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Crowdfunding is Doomed.

A Crowded Space

Later Stages. Let’s look more broadly at later-stage equity financing. Unless… crowd-funding sites adapt to be highly curated and controlled – and focus on brokering introductions and facilitating transactions and less on direct online investments. Raising money on a website surrenders your secrecy.

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Building for Massive Mobile Success: An Ex-Bleacher Report PM on Creating Their Hit App

View from Seed

Second, we thought about curation. Bleacher Report and Team Stream were always built on the idea of curating information and the best sports stories from across the web. NVV: Even though BR was a later-stage startup at that point, you mentioned being that proverbial “startup within a startup.”

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

ABM teams then began curating content and tagging it by use case, industry, and persona. Snowflake used content marketing platform Uberflip to curate and tailor content for specific accounts, using a variety of marketing tactics, including ads, email marketing, direct mail, and sponsored content.