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5 Rules Of Relevancy That Set Your New Venture Apart

Startup Professionals Musings

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Montgomery, which does a great job of laying out specifics.

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5 Startup Intangibles That Can Energize Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Montgomery, which does a great job of laying out specifics.

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5 Startup Strategies To Capitalize On Today’s Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Montgomery, which does a great job of laying out specifics.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. That was written in September 2008. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. goes into a startup.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

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He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. That said, a summary below is available for those who prefer to read the notes version. It could be a bubble or better balance of supply and demand.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. It turned out that this drove even more demand for StrongMail. Relaxing 2. Incubation 3.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. But the summary for you is: - get an intro. Then make sure to send out VERY high-level summary emails to update key investors on your company progress. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular. Tell a friend!

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