Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The sales professional.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

After being furloughed by the Harlem Globetrotters due to COVID-19, I founded Eric PR & Marketing, LLC as a way to help nonprofits and small businesses during difficult times. I officially parted ways with the Globetrotters in August and Eric PR & Marketing is my path forward. Thanks to Eric Nemeth, Eric PR & Marketing ! #6-

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Public Relations (PR) involves efforts to raise the profile of your company, manage your reputation, and build relationships with key people or organizations to attract customers and increase sales. In this post, you’ll find out the importance of including PR in your business plan. Anchor Your Sales And Marketing Efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. It can even start as a one-page pitch document that eventually evolves into a full business plan. . Build an active online presence (be your own PR person!). Find good business partners and people who will refer you.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

PR Week does this in a Twitter poll. Next, look at any companies or suppliers you already partner with. Your sponsor proposal document or webpage is a deal-maker or a deal-breaker. The sponsor proposal is the most important, but least-understood, document in the sponsor industry. What do they dislike?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

After all, planning is about making better management decisions, not about producing a thick document that sits in a drawer. You’ll be thinking about sales, marketing, the team you might need, and any partners or outside resources you’ll need to leverage. Key partners and resources. Step 1: Create a Lean Plan. Maybe both?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 13, 2015

> 66% B2B and 60% B2C “best in class” content marketers had a documented Content Marketing Strategy according to the Content Marketing Institute. As a Startup owner myself, I have realized the merit of having a documented strategy. RELATED: Partner with Brandanew to define your 2016 Content Marketing Strategy.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

They’re a great example of employee advocacy because their content is often shared and retweeted by their colleagues, like their Digital PR Lead. Do this by: Telling personal stories; Documenting your journey; Sharing your expert insights; Being real and honest, and; Taking a stand. Image source.

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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Having taken stock of the main legal documents and actions involved in forming and operating a new startup, let’s crack open the “case” (disregarding the warnings about voiding your warranty) and examine a few of the steps, documents and key decisions to be made in getting a new startup ready for business.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

Kevin Hale, Founder, Wufoo, and Partner, Y Combinator. Justin Kan, Founder, Twitch, and Partner, Y Combinator. Alfred Lin, Former COO, Zappos, and Partner, Sequoia Capital. Reid Hoffman, Founder, LinkedIn, and Partner, Greylock Ventures. Keith Rabois, Partner, Khosla Ventures (formerly PayPal, Slide, Square and LinkedIn).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

They outlined their retail channel and PR strategy and told me about the type of consultants they wanted to hire. Hiring PR Agencies. That’s smart I thought, a real clear charter for PR. At this moment you know more about your customers than any PR agency will. The same is true for hiring the PR agency.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Build an active online presence (be your own PR person!). Find good business partners and people who will refer you. Box address. Invest in printed marketing materials. Create a website. Set up a business email account.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Additional value outside of legal documents – Most lawyers who work with early stage startups secretly want to be entrepreneurs but they earn too much money to quit – the golden handcuffs I’ve found that the best of them think like entrepreneurs, though, and hang out at startup events. Good people and evil people.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

They don’t love documentation. Examples: - every time you release new features you need to update your technical documentation. - you also need to update your marketing documents including your website. new features need to be rolled into PR strategies and competitor analyses. - They’re sometimes moody.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

The bonus of naming the company Redhead Marketing & PR is that when I am meeting a potential client for the first time in a coffee shop or wherever, they are always able to spot me because of my company name and hair color. Thanks to Hilary Reiter, Redhead Marketing & PR. #5 I named my company RED PR for several reasons.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. In this section, you really just want to document how your business will make money. Schedule. The importance of a domain name.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

They outlined their retail channel and PR strategy and told me about the type of consultants they wanted to hire. Hiring PR Agencies. That’s smart I thought, a real clear charter for PR. At this moment you know more about your customers than any PR agency will. The same is true for hiring the PR agency.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I have been running a PR Firm, Whitegate PRINC since 2007. Our process has gone nearly 100% virtual, from Zoom consultations, DocuSign document signing, and added forms of communications such as texting. Now many of them are thriving with travelers realizing RV travel is a great way to ease the travel bug while still staying safe.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. So the partner who spends 50+% of the time managing wasn’t for us (although truthfully this probably does take 25% of my time).

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

More than a year was needed to have all process and project documentation optimized and organized so they were simple and intuitive for the team to follow. The Third ''S'' - ''Shine'' It is your product, marketing and PR strategies that need to shine for your startup to be successful.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

My partners and I founded Reel Paper with the goal of adding the positive experience of social responsibility to the simple e-comm purchase of a household staple: toilet paper. The doctor-patient relationship has been eroded as more attention is paid to record-keeping and documentation than to patient care. Photo Credit: Derin Oyekan.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2018

My partner and I joked about being night owls so it all came together to become Infinite Owl Marketing and Design Studio, our full-service marketing agency for content and creative strategy and execution. Thanks to Heather Krug, Heather Krug PR & Marketing ! #11- We could of added Babies into our name but it just didn’t flow.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

It should remain a ‘live’ document as you progress and as you grow. What exactly are you doing, who is your target audience, who are key partners or employees, how much money do you require to get started? The business plan should always be considered a live document. This is the last thing you want to do.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

From the raw data that you provide, you can assign your VA to convert it into an appealing PowerPoint presentation or a summarized word document. Building a strong relationship with clients and partners is important in establishing your business. You need to strengthen your tech PR strategy to maximize the power of the internet.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Both ways are great, I’ve tried both, but personally I wouldn’t try to start something again without partners. Stefan Tirtey, Partner at Doughty Hanson Ventures , created this document with Berlin early stage investors. They’ve worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, and built huge tech companies themselves (e.g.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We're trying to demonstrate all of that through stories and documentation and then we're trying to educate the audience, you know, coach them and help them understand the information so that they can then come to that conclusion. That's really what we're trying to do. We're trying to back up our claims with experts and witnesses.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

To quote my Partner John Frankel , traditional money managers are great at managing your money until there is none left. The firm hires a lot of PhDs to do research and come out with a wonder drug, and then markets it widely with tons of PR. Chernick: Exactly. As a second thought experiment, one could do the same in medicine.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. About 18 months later, we pivoted our messaging to evolve beyond digital PR. The goal was simple: validate demand or move on. Image source ).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 20, 2019

They will include things such as consumers, partners, investors, employees, and industry analysists. You should make sure you document your key messages and ensure they align with your key audiences. There is a large variety of elements you should be making considerations for these include: Identify Your Key Audiences.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning Misc Office Help Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

If you can, partnering up with someone more gregarious or at ease with networking is a great way of easing into networking. Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving. Schema.org has a lot of Information on how to set up a schema document for your site.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

If you can, partnering up with someone more gregarious or at ease with networking is a great way of easing into networking. Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving. Schema.org has a lot of Information on how to set up a schema document for your site.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2015

By Roman Yarovyi, PR and Communication Manager for One Visa Ltd. If you are going to share your business with a partner, you should better consider registering a partnership firm. This address is crucial as all official documentation will be sent to this address only. Getting the Right Address.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

Step 1: Create pre-launch documentation that refines your messaging and builds employee buy-in. Pre-launch documentation helps ensure everyone is on the same page before you begin shipping your product. Documenting the buyer’s journey with their goals and pain points allows for more compelling messaging.

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