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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market).

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch LA

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. The key takeaway?

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened?

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Marty Zwilling.

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Use Key Strategic Elements To Avoid Business Plateaus

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor, when I bring this up, at best I will hear the defense that you are focused on the strategy of the moment, such as such as how to increase sales, or reach a new market. Highlight your competitive value, not your technology. Customers and the market don’t stand still, so your strategy can’t either.

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Customer-Centric Strategies Win Over Product-Centric

Startup Professionals Musings

Is your marketing focus product-centric or customer-centric ? I predict that one day soon customer-centric strategies, and metrics like customer lifetime value, will be seen as the standard in business management, rather than an exception in a product-centric world. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/19/2019.

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10 Signals That You Can Be A Trusted Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Define metrics to measure what you want to achieve. For example, measuring marketing team members on sales leads may not get you the revenue growth or trust you expected. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/25/2019. Granting trust is a strong signal that motivates returning the favor.

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