Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

In fact, this article was driven by a startup press release I saw recently, highlighting a startup’s “geo-fencing technology” as a new basis for discount coupons. I like the guidance from marketing coach David Newman’s recent book “ Do It! Be passionate about what you do, but develop a really strong plan, and a strong plan B too.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Full press release with more details is here. He was able to raise money from a VC in Minneapolis called Split Rock , grow the business to over $200 million in sales and sell to Experian for nearly $380 million. On the funding, business creation, business development fronts I think we did quite well. The rest is history.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

In fact, this article was driven by a startup press release I just saw today, highlighting a startup’s “geo-fencing technology” as a new basis for discount coupons. I found some help from marketing coach David Newman’s new book “ Do It! Be passionate about what you do, but develop a really strong plan, and a strong plan B too.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles.

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MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Ask for help reviewing your press release. Ask them to mention you to the press, speak about you on stage when they do public events, whatever.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

Last year, this same type of legislation was adopted by thirty other nations and countries who are member of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”), with its much-awaited Good Practice Guidance for anti-bribery compliance programs. The resulted in the U.S. corporations to make any payments to foreign officials.

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MAY 7, 2016

The founders and team develop a huge confidence level that appropriately increases risk-taking, output, expansion, deals, revenue, press and everything that is a consequence of initial successes. Your lead developer quit to join the new, new thing. This is a very common post Series A phenomenon. Everything has gone well to date.

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JULY 27, 2013

You got your tech press and your parents are proud. You build a team, ship your product, more tech press, more funding. Your lead developer quit to join the new hot thing. I wish more startups would get personal coaches so they could let out their angst to neutral people – not staff, not investors. Confidence.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Read the opening quote from his initial press release on the program … “Warning that America’s long term economic prospects are uncertain without radical innovation in technology, Peter Thiel this week launched the Thiel Fellowship to foster the next generation of tech visionaries.&#. As a country we need to address this.

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