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7 Key Startup Activities Where Follow-Up Is Critical

Startup Professionals Musings

For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Some struggling entrepreneurs are totally event driven. Here are a few: Business networking.

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What to Look For in a Business Partner

Up and Running

When I was going through the co-founder “dating” process, I’d found a potential partner through my network who seemed to be perfect. Though my potential partner was performing well by the numbers, my own productivity was dwindling as I spent more and more time on managing our relationship. I could hustle.

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What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking

Steve Blank

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). You’ve been funded to get to a liquidity event. ——-. The Good News.

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

Lower valuations and follow on valuation sensitivity – fundraising is a recurring event in the life of a startup. That’s yet another reason for micro funds to move earlier in the fundraising timeline.

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Getting Things Done Trumps Great Ideas In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Some struggling entrepreneurs are totally event driven. Here are a few: Business networking.

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Q&A with Mangrove VC partner Michael Jackson: “You don’t build code at a party”

The Next Web

Silicon Allee (a TNW content partner ) caught up with him to pick his brain on what 2013 might hold for us. You have to ask, why am I going to this event? So there is that aspect – when you go to an event, are you recruiting? So there is that aspect – when you go to an event, are you recruiting? But time is precious.

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Top Entrepreneurs Have Follow-up, Not Ideas Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Some struggling entrepreneurs are totally event driven. Here are a few: Business networking.