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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

Both Sides of the Table

Smart entrepreneurs have often used this competition / appetite to invest to their advantage. There are 100x entrepreneurs to investors and 10x early-stage funds to late stage funds and the earlier the more likely to blog. If you listen to conventional wisdom this is the only thing happening.

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Finding Startup Developers - First Email Contact

SoCal CTO

That post and How to Find Programmers for You Startup - a Field Guide both lay out a lot of the tactics that will prepare a founder for important early conversations. Homework I don't think that this founder has looked at my blog or my background. Please let me know if you can share this information with your members.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

Both Sides of the Table

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.”

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Xconomy Awards San Diego Diversity Finalists Are Scaling Up Empowerment

Xconomy

In an awards program, it can seem like a competition, but in the Commitment to Diversity category, many of the finalists are in fact collaborating with each other or share common roots. For example, finalist Silvia Mah is also a co-founder of one of the other finalists in the category, Ad Astra Ventures. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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6 Ways To Strengthen Your Base As A Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

A real business leader must have a set of guiding values and morals, which set your reputation in the mind of others, and improve your self-leadership perception. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain. Solidify and demonstrate your personal values.

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How to use PR Firms at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

This post is a short guide to what I’ve learned: 1. I was talking a month ago with a founding team who was lamenting the fact that their competitors got way better coverage than they did when they felt that their traffic numbers were > 2x the competition. That’s why keeping a personal blog is so great.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Startup Survival Guide: Beating the 800lb Gorillas. Entrepreneurism / Monetization blogging, Entrepreneurship, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization. .

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