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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … Next on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Tiffani Bell , co-founder of the Detroit Water Project ; and Clay Hebert , founder of Crowdfunding Hacks. It worked in the sense of we built value. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. This is a very clever way of helping new funds get their footing and hearing about what is working before others may pick up the scent.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Google – we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. We’ll strip out all of the ad-supported news and portal features so you won’t be distracted from using the free search stuff. It won’t have cut and paste.

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How the iPhone Got Tail Fins – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

But by 1901, Ransom Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and in the next decade was quickly followed by other innovators who opened large scale manufacturing plants in Detroit – Henry Packard, Henry Leland’s Cadillac, and Henry Ford with the Model A. But Sloan went further.

Detroit 305
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Some thoughts on building your team

BeyondVC

For example, if you have a network security startup, the obvious players will be other security companies that sell similar products at similar price points with a similar distribution channel. One concentric circle out from the bullseye could include networking companies that have a similar business model and distribution channel.

Detroit 60
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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students. I just could not sell myself. So, I started doing that.