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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

Then there is the need for more substantial business accounting, database, and social media monitoring. These days, computer hardware also extends to smartphone subscriptions, iPads, and laptops as your employees and customers expect mobile operation. Unanticipated pivots, quality write-offs, and shrinkage.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. It’s been a while since they’ve updated their RFS list and it captures all the buzzword’s of today’s tech world: AI, defence tech, climate, spatial computing, etc.

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Female Founder Interview: Gabriela Rodil, Consultant and Latina Leader

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series, we interviewed Ms. As you have a history of building early stage companies, what is the most important thing you tell startup founders? Build building a database of your clients/suppliers/contacts in a centralized system such as Outlook from the start. Gabriela Rodil.

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Female Founder Interview: Gabriela Rodil, Consultant and Latina Leader

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series, we interviewed Ms. As you have a history of building early stage companies, what is the most important thing you tell startup founders? Build building a database of your clients/suppliers/contacts in a centralized system such as Outlook from the start. Gabriela Rodil.

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5 Risks You As A Consultant Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

by Erin Yurday, CEO, Co-founder and Editor of NimbleFins. If the virus corrupts your client’s database leading to financial loss, you can be sued as a result. Erin Yurday is the CEO, Co-founder and Editor of NimbleFins , a market research company specialised in aiding businesses and professionals in their decision-making.

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More Features Kill More Startups Than Lack of Money

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. Founders who constantly give in to changes will get more until the startup breaks. Draw the line between need versus want.

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Machine Learning Is Your Secret Weapon For Customer Acquisition

YoungUpstarts

While machine learning does fall under the larger category of artificial intelligence (AI), it’s a bit more specific and can be extremely effective technology to pair with your customer and prospect database. True AI can think for itself like Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek. www.act.com ).