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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. Use social media for early marketing.

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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE.

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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. Use social media for early marketing.

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6 Ways To Make You An Entrepreneur Before The Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges. Anticipate and establish supporting social media accounts. Every future entrepreneur should start by networking.

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6 Marketing Accelerators For Boosting Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. Of course, you can’t possibly brand yourself if you don’t know who you really are.

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Bio Roundup: Michael Becker, Suzanne Eaton, Gene Therapy Moves & More

Xconomy

It seems at times we’re never far removed from any one person, through their published papers, social media connections, friends, colleagues, or people they’ve mentored. But these worlds can be small, too. We had terrible news this week of the deaths of two people whose lives and work touched many people.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. Setting up for Eric Garcetti.