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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News?

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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

socalTECH

We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. I think the vision and the selling, for investors, for employees, and for customers, is really a core skill. We had to do a reduction-in-force and layoff early in our career, and I thought we were done. That's not any one thing.

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10 Cash-Flow Surprises That Could Kill Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. On the other side, your new customers expect a free trial period.

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Is Your Startup Growing Too Quickly For Cash Flow?

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. On the other side, your new customers expect a free trial period.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion, Not A Choice

InfoChachkie

In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. Keep your write-ups to a single page. Customer Problems/ Pain Points. State the problem/ pain points of the customers clearly. Who is the customer? Product Name.

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Interview with Josh Stomel, ResumeBucket

socalTECH

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. Plus, we will provide resume writing services. Josh Stomel: We're seeing more and more layoffs every day. What's the idea behind the site? So to understand this correctly--when you show a resume, you also show ads?

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone.