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7 Government Small Business Grants to Apply For in May 2024

Tech.Co

We also offer some advice for writing your application, to make sure your proposal is as competitive as possible. We understand that writing a grant application might seem like a daunting process, especially if you’re a first-timer. Follow the instructions carefully – Don’t go off-piste when writing your application.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” We have never done a press release. Write Your Own Playbook.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

Both Sides of the Table

They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. I doubt they’d be willing to press harder in questioning and/or be more attuned to negative signals that the reference might be implying but not actually saying. You name it.

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Understanding the Herd Mentality of VCs and How not to Let it Psyche You Out

Both Sides of the Table

It’s like the entire industry wants to outsource its brain to the smartest person they know and then follow that person. Founders read the tech press every day filled with stories about these $20 million fund-raisings by this firm and that firm and it sounds like everybody else is doing it except for you. Wait, make that $1 million.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? One hour I might be spending time working with customers and partners, the next day raising capital, the day after that working on product vision and the next hour talking to the press. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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