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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. The cost of social media done well is low.

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5 Tips For New Entrepreneurs Needing Investor Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

People cite sources like this Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.”

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

Both Sides of the Table

Offer the ability to react / comment - In the blogging world it’s clear that having a good comment system like Disqus is critical. Good comment community = viral blog. Try making your blog posts as lists and have it in your headline to drive clicks. The more engaging, the more it gets shared. How very meta of me, hey?

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Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. 51:00 One more tip from Suster on the sales world. It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. 42:00 The simpler the comp plan, the easier it is to see the shenanigans.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Photo credit: BaileyRaeWeaver via Visual Hunt 11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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8 Tips For Startups Preparing For The Media Spotlight

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds. Handling different media formats. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. All the lessons from traditional media apply, and more.

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6 Tips For Entrepreneurs To Lock In On The Right Road

Startup Professionals Musings

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. They do need the first few steps, and where to find the next steps.