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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 10, 2013
Stop reading their press releases or hearing their founder talk about he is crushing it. You see them in their tuxedos or cocktail dresses because you’re reading their press releases or following them on Instagram. Startups are filled with enormously talented people – often product people & engineers.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 1, 2013
According to Marten, "Suddenly, when we were building our business and we thought that this very vital component of our product would be part of us, suddenly it was owned by one of our competitors. On the following Monday, Marten was besieged by the tech press. It was completely devastating.". Fortunately, he was ready.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 We started building 4 products so that our end-to-end, supply-chain services would be complete (MVP? We listened way too much to what the press said. We had 6 term sheets in no time.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 27, 2012
John made it clear to Brian that the Beatles’ role was to make the product and tend to the company’s operations. When he was approached by savvy New York businessmen to license the Beatles’ name and likeness for various novelty products and toys, he firmly stated that he would not accept a penny less than 10%.
InfoChachkie
JANUARY 18, 2012
By focusing on what he would do differently now, he was able to humbly convey a number of impactful lessons to a captivated audience of budding entrepreneurs. Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. Getting press is sales.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. But it seemed strange to me that we would openly talk about stuff rather than waiting for a big announcement to the press.
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