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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

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This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

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Fueled by a drive to be self-made and complimentary pizza & beer, the room consisted of younger and older, budding entrepreneurs, track-proven overseers, and even a couple of angel investors. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. But startups can shoot themselves in the foot when founders use consultants at the wrong time or in the wrong way.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong.