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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. NDAs or Other Protection So you decide you want to be able to share with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. NDAs or Other Protection So you decide you want to be able to share with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.)

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6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

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Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. If this is the case, offer to make a meaningful introduction to a potential customer or partner of one of their portfolio companies.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Look at what Brad Feld has done for Boulder. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive. You have this perception that they’re billing you for the lunch meeting they invited you to and the friendly banter emails flying back and forth. But make it competitive.

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