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How a Seed-Stage Startup Should Think About Brand: A Conversation With Jesse Derris

View from Seed

Jesse Derris is the founder and CEO of Derris & Company , a PR, branding, and communications firm based in New York. It still involves a deep focus on brand, and good tactical execution—you just do it yourself, and not with an agency or a public relations expert. It’s doable though. Who owns the brand at a startup?

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Twitter Link Roundup #74 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link]. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link]. “The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Good summary of #EntUngpluggd event (by @yongshuling) – [link].