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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. Most investors want to enquire about a few operating metics and this type of discussion is less productive in a group setting.

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7 Pitching Tips to Help You Crush Your Next Investor Meeting

Tech.Co

Founders are understandably very passionate about their product and startup. It shows, you’re just thinking of the end goal, and not thinking about the product/offering,” said Francisco. No CEO/founder I’ve ever met when they had under 10 employees (Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Airbnb) ever said that to impress me.

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5 Business Relationships That Will Get You To The Top

Startup Professionals Musings

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). Of course, relationships seldom fit neatly into a given level. He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: Meet and greet relationships (first floor).

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

Both Sides of the Table

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? More strategic.

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10 Top Content Marketing Tips for Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. According to Hubspot , websites that have blogs get twice as many inbound links, 400 percent more indexed pages, and a more than 50 percent increase in traffic, compared to websites without blogs.

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Every Small Business Should Celebrate the Positives

Startup Professionals Musings

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. A good entrepreneur feels the incentive to offer a new service/product that no one else has offered before. Beat the competition. The cycle never stops.

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7 Ways to Fail When Applying to an Accelerator

Tech.Co

After the first few hundred applications, every word on the page is like Velcro across our eyeballs (which, btw, is why you should never wait until the last minute to apply to a popular accelerator program). We once received an application that ran 22 pages – of text, no graphics! Consider this a self-defense essay. The #EpicNovelFail.

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