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Recruit Cal Ripken, Not Reggie Jackson, To Your Startup

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Managerial Oversight And Performance Matter At A Startup. If they do not adequately improve over time, consider counseling them out of your startup. Prima Donna Benchwarmers – These individuals represent the worst type of startup employee. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Sales Lessons From TLC’s “Say Yes To The Dress”

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Such pro active communications allows startups to be more responsive than their larger, resource-rich competitors. Startup sales require high velocity. Startups must follow a similar philosophy. Startups should deploy a similar tag team approach. Startups should deploy a similar tag team approach.

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Combustion Matters More Than Scale

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In the business world, a fire subsisting on fuel wood is equivalent to a startup that has achieved scale. Scaling normally occurs after a startup achieves product-market fit. At scale, entrepreneurs have the luxury of shifting their focus from survival to maximizing the return on their resources. Don''t Define Scale Too Early.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Starting with 25% is even harder. Not worth it.

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What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

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Once people who do not know you and have no vested interest in your company's success begin expending their time, money and resources to leverage your value proposition, you are gaining traction. Although I have always been extremely persistent in my professional follow-up, no one has (yet) issued a restraining order asking me to back off.

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Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

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Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks.

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