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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. In addition, creating a business requires leading and interacting with other people, including partners, investors, and customers. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking.

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7 Strategies For Brand Leadership Through Influencers

Startup Professionals Musings

You too can become an influencer through social media, videos and blogs, and people will follow you on what to buy, what causes to support, and who to vote for. I still see too many aspiring business leaders highlighting their technology, product features, and price, more than customer value and usability.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

Both Sides of the Table

So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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What price? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.”

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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What price? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.”

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Email updates frequently.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. Ask your customer why you lost. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on.