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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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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

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One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area.

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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. 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.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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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. And I actually got pretty decent grades in English and writing overall. And no irony.

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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)? ” Of course not. But everybody knows Luma Partners in our space.

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