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5 Risk Reduction Strategies For Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Studying and learning from the mistakes of others is the best way to reduce your own risks. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors.

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5 Keys To Reducing Startup Risk By Building On Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Studying and learning from the mistakes of others is the best way to reduce your own risks. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors.

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6 Tips For A Marketing Focus To Match Your Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Do case studies and gather customer testimonials, as well as build relationships that lead to advocacy, loyalty, and word-of-mouth support. Far fewer lead with their best strategies on this media, including regular incentives to customers, pointers to case studies, and technical insights.

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6 Key Steps To Transform Business Dreams Into Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus my challenge to you is to start today in documenting specific goals , putting some metrics in place to measure progress, and start celebrating every bit of progress, no matter how small, along the way as follows: Convert dreams into specific written objectives. Use self-study and coaching as required.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” What happens is 18–20 firms access the data room and download all of your documents. You are going to “study” the details before making a decision. It doesn’t. Yeah, sure.

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A Startup That Imitates, With Innovation, Often Wins

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Studying and learning from the mistakes of others is the best way to reduce your own risks. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors.

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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents.

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