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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo!

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

Tech Zulu Event

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. Ask for is code samples.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction to investors, as well as your team: Document your business plan. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better.

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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. figure it’s a good time to be introspective and consider my motivations.

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