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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 4, 2023
These days it is often more about being unique than being valuable. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. You need to give them something to talk about and incentives to be brand ambassadors. Don’t try to do everything at once, and don’t expect that you can do it once and forget about it.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 4, 2016
These people are like the friend in college who always tempted you by telling you about the latest party when you were at the library studying. I try to steer entrepreneurs away from over-introducers and I often find myself wanting to be careful about them becoming an investor in companies I back. It starts seemingly innocent enough.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 10, 2020
These days it is often more about being unique than being valuable. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. You need to give them something to talk about and incentives to be brand ambassadors. Don’t try to do everything at once, and don’t expect that you can do it once and forget about it.
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 31, 2022
From a societal perspective, I’d be more concerned about e-scooters leaving Los Angeles than Paris,” David Zipper, a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, told TechCrunch. Boohoo to your complaints about scooters on sidewalks! Frustrated. So what if there are accidents?
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 3, 2022
billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. They all seem to have slightly similar journeys, like they run consumer brands, maybe [have] slightly problematic racial politics, and some kind of takedown piece [is written about them]. That’s like the PR trope.”.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 10, 2014
These days it is often more about being unique than being valuable. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. You need to give them something to talk about and incentives to be brand ambassadors. Don’t try to do everything at once, and don’t expect that you can do it once and forget about it.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal. They expect to hear about founders and team member’s prior experience in building a startup, and knowledge in the relevant solution domain.
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