Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Raising money is difficult, even with the best idea, so don’t assume any entitlement to loans, grants, or seed funding. I don’t advise pitching to famous Silicon Valley venture capitalists for major funding until well after your business is a proven hit, and you are looking to scale it up across the country or world-wide.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2014
So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. I raised a small seed round.
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From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 30, 2013
Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning.
Tech.Co
MAY 9, 2017
We started traveling to Sundance and SXSW and these shows with awesome companies, but no one was writing about it,” Taylor said. Taylor started pushing out content through social media and share what was happening in the industry. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 5, 2011
My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. People say we’re crazy, but we know creators are legit businesses,” Karat writes on its website — the company didn’t respond to a request to chat about what they’re working on.
From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 30, 2013
Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning.
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