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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. The following year, she stepped down as CEO, and by 2016, her company filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Boohoo. Then, Amoruso started a company called Girlboss that was likened to “Linkedin for Women.”

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10 Reasons To Market Globally While Selling Locally

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. Respond to reviews to give a personable picture of you, your company, and your products. Skip the better, faster, or stronger; you need to be the best, fastest, or strongest to truly stand out.

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10 Keys To Results With Social-Local-Mobile Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. Respond to reviews to give a personable picture of you, your company, and your products. Skip the better, faster, or stronger; you need to be the best, fastest, or strongest to truly stand out.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success.

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Interview with Greg Siegel, VidMe

socalTECH

What's the story behind the company? A lot of us have been in situations where we've shared various things with people--and usually, innocently, have them forward it around, reposted it, and done a lot of things you wish they hadn't done. Emmanuel, who created Endeavor, and I started the New Media division for them.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success.