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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

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This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We were unprepared.

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If You Don’t Respect Your Customers You Won’t Be Successful

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I spend a lot of time with startups and thus hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers. Starting with a positive. I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. The press don’t get your financials.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. Even bigger is the desire to stick one’s middle finger up at all of the people who doubted you all along. We checked regulatory rules.

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How To Network With Really Busy People

InfoChachkie

After over 20-years of working at startups and struggling to get the attention of very busy people, I discovered two sentiments that almost always resulted in a reply. Review the company''s press releases, the recipient''s LinkedIn profile, etc. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Kevin O’Connor Discusses The Secrets Of Success - Hint: There Are No Secrets

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If you care to review my prior discussion with Kevin, you can do so HERE. Before starting FindTheBest, Kevin was the Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B He jokes that in the photo below, he was the only guy who could get up on the file cabinet. When you are doing a startup, it just doesn’t really matter.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Tim started to change our processes. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. Back then it seemed foreign.

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REVIEW | Un-Realistic TV: “Start-ups: Silicon Valley”

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The final episode of Bravo’s Start-ups: Silicon Valley aired recently, wrapping up an 8-episode run of what could be considered the most bizarre depiction of entrepreneurs and start-ups to date. They sound serious about start-ups, however actions speak louder than words. What was that ?

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