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You Are Never Too Old (or Too Successful) For A Mentor

InfoChachkie

The Founder was kind enough to mentor me for several years, allowing me to experience all the roles involved in running a software company, including: sales, marketing, support and product development. This was a fulfilling experience, as I was in my twenties and fairly clueless. I certainly did. Having a mentor has made me a better mentor.

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How to Stay in Control of Your Meetings

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So here’s a short guide to achieving that. In a perfect world you’d know the issues you want to discuss well in advance and you’d prepare a deck to guide the discussion. And management is mostly grateful to have it over to “get back to focusing on the business.” It’s your job to guide them there. What do you think?

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

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AngelList is a great way to market your deal. So as I said, for this I’m grateful to Nivi & Naval for having started the service. Still, we’re nearly 2 years into a bull market for angel investing (read: bubble) and 1 year into a VC bubble. Still, I live in public & am pretty easy to get introduced to.

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I met with an investor, what happens next?

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Read the following as a guide. If you happen to see him I’d really be grateful if you would mention how much you like our product / believe in our company / that you knew me well when we worked at Yahoo! (or Do the market sizing analysis for them and send it. This isn’t always the case. So how to proceed? What, what?

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 9, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.? Novel and creative campaigns like the recent YouTube campaign from Old Spice purportedly demonstrate the power of social in marketing. Kudos to John for an excellent pitch. But I like its underratedness.

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