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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

Today, Mark Attanasio gets to flex his full range of expertise and interests as co-founder and Managing Partner of Hillcrest Merchant Partners, a Toronto-based merchant bank focused on early stage and mid market growth companies. So mining, in and of itself, is a great area to be focusing on.

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Business Owner Challenges in the Disrupted Business Loan Market

The Startup Magazine

In Sweden, as for many other countries, this lead to a massive increase in demand of liquidity. Kompar is business loan broker for startups and SMEs in Sweden, helping business owners to compare loans. Not surprisingly, the demand for financing skyrocketed when COVID19 hit Sweden. Demand for business loans has increased.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric. Tickets are available now and include dinner. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like. But all things are never equal.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. For example, my experience with teenagers is that they are very reluctant to call or email asking for support, even when they have a severe problem. They just dont need another authority figure in their life. Dont confuse passion with volume.