YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Copywriting the website content for a tech startup can be a critical part of spreading your brand image and awareness. These are some copywriting tips that can help your tech startup to grow through your website and its content. As a tech startup founder, you might need to turn your attention to several things at once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If there’s one thing that we can learn from studying successful startups and corporations, it’s that there’s no singular path to entrepreneurial success. But at the same time, it’s clear that most high-growth startups do things a bit differently. The Differentiating Factors of High-Growth Startups. They Hire Great People.

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Balance Sheet Startup Audience Retention 90

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

I was having a second coffee with an ex student, now the head of a marketing inside a rapidly growing startup. If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup, update your resume. Titles in a startup are not the same as what your job is. We hired union laborers to do that. All good news.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

These days I see a surge of new startups as businesses seem to be recovering from the pandemic. No online presence may brand you as “old school,” and not startup material. Spring and Summer are the best times of the year to make new connections and find new startups, with outdoor activities and sports. Actively work the network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. But none of that can happen if you have an impediment to growth – an invisible (or perhaps visible) force keeping your startup from creating the momentum it needs to keep growing. . You can hire more salespeople and practice social selling. . Or is it? .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. One of them is profitability.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As a new entrepreneur or business owner, the most important thing you will do is hire talent. As a startup co-founder with a growing team, here are the recruiting tips I’ve learnt over the last couple of years. Hiring = Sales. You need to sell them on why your startup is the best. What does the right hire look like?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. The average amount per startup has been $23,000, usually in the form of a convertible loan, rather than an equity investment.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Since employees have been working remotely, organizations have seen a significant increase in productivity and communication, making employers more open toward hiring or partnering with people that are located throughout the US and all over the world. Cost Savings. It’s a win for both sides.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). Mavericks do work well in early-stage companies and are probably your best bet for you first hire or two. I generally think that superstars are not the first people to hire in a startup.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 27, 2024

Initial investment and startup costs To kickstart your self-storage business in Leesburg, FL, consider initial investments like property acquisition, facility construction, and security systems. Factor in startup expenses such as insurance, utilities, and marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2022

Businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups all join in the hope that they can keep their millennial workforce engaged and happy. For you as a startup owner, this insight holds far greater significance. With their prowess and charm, millennials can change the fortunes of your startup for the better.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Projecting from the seed stage, there are two types of team-building topics you want to address – key senior hires and org-level team building. As the company progresses through product market fit (PMF), you will want to highlight other key senior hires required to scale and round out the functional expertise of the exec team.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This involves building your reputation as a tutor and appealing to students so that they might consider hiring your services over competitors. While the potential market is substantial, you will have to work hard to promote yourself and offer something differentiated from your competition to win over clients. Cyclical Demand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2024

How to Hire a Fractional CMO: The Smart Way to Scale written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Are you looking at your business goals and feeling your marketing strategy just isn’t cutting it? This is where hiring a fractional CMO can make a significant difference. When should I hire a fractional CMO?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2021

They’re “playing startup” as opposed to actually building a company. It’s easy… If the very first thing you did after coming up with your idea was make a pitch deck for fundraising, versus trying to sell or test customers on it, you’re probably playing startup, not building a company. How do you know which is which?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

In fact, it’s why many startup folks leave the early stage world to go over to the big company side—because the benefits tend to be much better. A lot of smaller startups are complaining that it’s super difficult to recruit talent right now, but few are differentiating their offering.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 22, 2023

In today’s market space, if you’re a startup, you need to grow fast or die slow. Startups with a slow annual growth are likely to close within a few years. This is why startups need to scale fast. From automating processes to marketing and improving talent acquisition, here’s the role of AI in startup success.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

And so a large part of the VCs time is focused on the question ‘who should I invest in’ Equally important though, is the question of why should a founder/ startup take your money. When capital is commoditised, and every VC fund might look the same to a founder, market forces encourage players to differentiate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2017

That doesn’t mean you need to hire an expensive recruiter for every position, but it does mean that you must put the same time and effort into finding rockstar people, as you do in building a rockstar solution. What percentage of your hires have stayed two years? This is often referred to as the “stick” rate for new hires.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The more specific, exact, and differentiated your positioning is, and the more clients you’ll be honest with by stating exactly how much value you can provide them – the easier it will be to attract and close the right clients. Positioning. Instead, focus on your agency’s strengths.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2013

[entity display="Next" type="organization" subtype="company" active="true" key="next" ticker="NXGPY" exchange="London" natural_id="fred/company/3064"]Next[/entity] week, I’ll post part 2 in this series: how to hire an outsourced designer for your company. Here are 5 keys to look for in hiring an A-Quality Startup Designer: 1).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It starts with hiring the right people, and building relationships with the right experts, analysts, and investors. A compelling story can make or break your ability to differentiate your solution from dozens of others. Incent your team to continually think “outside-the-box.” Then you really listen to what they have to say.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. With the rise of new cannabis companies, it is important to differentiate your cannabis company from the competition, whether you are opening a farm, extraction operation, or dispensary. Hiring plans. Be specific.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities. Now the company is in crisis mode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Building on my post on ‘ Advice for startups in a downturn (May 2022 edition) ‘, this week I continued to follow with interest the impact of the current correction on startups and venture capital, particularly in early stage. Layoffs and hiring freezes have started. Sequoia’s Adapting to Endure.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We hear all the time about the importance of hiring the right people and the expanding universe of advice can be overwhelming; hire slow and fire fast, only hire the “right&# candidate; ask probing questions; check all references; blah blah blah. So to start, here’s why hiring sucks: 1.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 22, 2021

Hiring and retaining the right talent for your organization is just as crucial as having a great service or product, especially in the early stages of building a company. In this article, we list some important considerations in implementing employee performance management for startups. 1) Define company values. Only 27 percent of U.S.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2021

Statistics indicate that up to 90% of new startups fail. But, it presents a stark reality that business startups have to face. Reasons why startups and small businesses fail. Many reasons contribute to why startups and small businesses fail. A business can differentiate itself from competitors with product quality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2022

Getting things done effectively in a startup requires total individual and team accountability. Therefore an entrepreneur’s first requirement is to hire or team only with people who are accountable (already have the confidence and skills you need) – training them on the job is prohibitively expensive when you have minimal income.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So, before starting an eCommerce business , follow these tips to better plan out your site and accurately budget your startup costs. However, it’s not easy to do this on your own, and you should expect to hire a skilled developer to implement some of the more complex steps. Budgeting for the initial website build.

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