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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Finally, review the numbers with your partners. channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution We often reference Dave’s work when talking to innovators. We need to make sure we have these numbers. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. Be sure to check out the entire presentation.

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The Future Of Work Is Distributed

Feld Thoughts

My investments have always been geographically distributed across the US and I spent the majority of my time between Monday and Friday on the road. In the past few years, there have been several high profile examples of scaled companies that have a completely distributed workforce. For many years, this was a function of travel.

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

I think VCs will gravitate even more towards repeat founders with prior success, and will be more gun shy about backing someone that is difficult to reference within their networks. But the risk to founders is that these investors may not be very committed partners and might quickly disengage if things go sideways.

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How Smart Startups Survive Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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5 Relationship Stages That Determine Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships. In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, high level relationships are everything. You can’t start a business alone. Marty Zwilling