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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. You may have gotten some articles that covered your product launch or may have gotten into industry rags but this might be your first time on TechCrunch, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, GigaOm, Business Insider or the equivalent. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News?

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

socalTECH

We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly. I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. I don't know if you've read my book, but I started my career writing trading systems in a software company. It's all about leverage.

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10 Cash-Flow Surprises That Could Kill Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. You can be on budget, and still run out of cash.

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Is Your Startup Growing Too Quickly For Cash Flow?

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. You can be on budget, and still run out of cash.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion, Not A Choice

InfoChachkie

In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. Keep your write-ups to a single page. Product Name. State the anticipated name of your product/service. You might want to read: Lousy Product Names. Can you get the URL?

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Interview with Josh Stomel, ResumeBucket

socalTECH

Plus, we will provide resume writing services. Josh Stomel: We're seeing more and more layoffs every day. The good news, is a product like ResumeBucket actually grows in this economy. So to understand this correctly--when you show a resume, you also show ads? Josh Stomel: Yes, we show ads relevant to the keywords and the resume.

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Entrepreneurs Can Thrive on Services or Products

Startup Professionals Musings

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. They are not the generalists required for new product startups. Writing specialists. So I believe we all need to learn how to be good entrepreneurs, in the sense of taking responsibility for our own education, skills, well being, and productivity.