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6 Key Leaders Every Technical Startup Needs To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

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. The operations superstar. The sales professional.

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6 Team Members Who Will Make Your New Venture Robust

Startup Professionals Musings

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. The operations superstar. The sales professional.

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6 Dream Team Members Will Energize Any Tech Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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. The operations superstar. The sales professional.

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Every Technical Startup Wishes For This Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

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. The operations superstar. The sales professional.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate. o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”. And he said ok got it.

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6 Ideal Team Members For Any Entrepreneurial Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

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. The operations superstar. The sales professional.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? They usually ask for warrants (basically like a stock option) in exchange for taking a deferred fee. I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement.