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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

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For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). ” In fact, I was at a recent early-stage VC/LP conference where this was accepted as conventional wisdom. Maybe take some.

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6 Ways To Strengthen Your Base As A Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

A real business leader must have a set of guiding values and morals, which set your reputation in the mind of others, and improve your self-leadership perception. This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. Solidify and demonstrate your personal values.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. When to start PR?

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How to use PR Firms at Startups

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This post is a short guide to what I’ve learned: 1. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. It’s a continual process. In a startup this is a mistake. Some final thoughts on PR.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? Final example.

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

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Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. Any competition in LA?

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. He had the idea that people would want city guides to tell them where to eat and what to do. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.