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7 Reasons to Start a Blog Before Shipping a Product

Startup Professionals Musings

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Populate your team. Cultivate early customers.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Both Sides of the Table

I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. Develop a thick skin for it. So it is now publicly known that we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund. Entrepreneurshit.

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How To Write An Effective Answer On Quora: Communications 101

InfoChachkie

Although an additional 140 Oswald episodes were produced over the next 14 years, none of them was nearly as successful as the first 26 installments, which were developed under Walt Disney’s tutelage. I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans. Timing and luck also play a role.

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A Blog Can Be A Startup’s Most Valuable Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Find potential partners. Populate your team. Build your credibility with investors.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers. These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position.

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Why Great Executives Avoid Shiny Objects

Both Sides of the Table

We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. And then there are investors who want updates, calls, reports, check-ins.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

TechEmpower

This is a longer-than-average TFB round announcement blog entry, but there is a lot to share, so bear with me. And in any event, whatever overhead Docker incurs is uniformly applicable as all test implementations are required to be Dockered. Expect to hear more about this as the plan develops during Round 17. More on that later.

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