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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet.

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10 Reasons To Market Globally While Selling Locally

Startup Professionals Musings

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. Build word-of-mouth into your product or service.

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10 Keys To Results With Social-Local-Mobile Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. Build word-of-mouth into your product or service.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad. And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If

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10 Innovative New Global Ways To Grow Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

A UVP sells a product or service because it differentiates it from other products or services that are available. With social media, you can interact more precisely and create custom products and marketing to be almost all things to all people. Build word-of-mouth into your product or service.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet.