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What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

InfoChachkie

Five broad sources of independent, third-party validation are: Customers, Partners, Distributors, Industry Experts and other Stakeholders. For instance, validation that directly supports your company's underlying value proposition is more valuable than corroboration that indirectly suggests customers might ultimately adopt your solution.

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Startup Spotlight: Final Exams, Santa Chatbot and Clean Up Your Email

Tech.Co

This week in Startup Spotlight we found companies helping students get through their final exams, gift giving chatbots, getting out of email hell, and more. And getting help in challenging subjects always makes it a bit easier to push through. ChatbotsBuilder (Boston, MA). Gooroo (New York, NY). Flow-e ( Sofia, Bulgaria ).

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

InfoChachkie

Hopefully this straightforward format will help you avoid overly obtuse verbiage, while keeping your executive summary to two pages. What does your pain reliever look like, how is it implemented by the customer and what future products do you expect to roll out? Who do I write the check to and where do I send it? Opportunity.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

Both Sides of the Table

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

InfoChachkie

As an entrepreneur, I helped create companies which achieved two IPOs and two trade sales totaling $385 million. Hopefully this article and the accompanying six-minute video will help you avoid learning these mission-critical lessons the hard way. During those same 15-years, I made innumerable mistakes. Fallacy: Yes. Share and Enjoy.