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Startups should focus on value add rather than amount of investment, says Sharon Lou, partner, Indelible Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

I have also been involved in developing the startup ecosystem in Malaysia at the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Center (MaGIC). It was launched by President Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2014.) Additionally, do you have any other advice for anyone looking to start a fund?

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Cybersecurity: What’s With the Attitude?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2014, we saw Heartbleed arrive on the cybersecurity scene. You need to be innovative and creative to come up with security awareness training that educates, engages and enthuses. If you were buying a used car, would you trust your mechanic’s advice or the advice of the car dealer’s mechanic who can’t stop smiling ingenuously at you?

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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

Both Sides of the Table

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. He pinged me that he was thinking about joining a startup based in LA with the CEO in NYC and would I be willing to meet him and give him advice on this process. Jordan Hudson.

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Spotter raises $200M to invest $1 billion into YouTubers’ back catalogs

TechCrunch

Then, once a creator inks a deal with Spotter, the company will use those analytics to give them advice about growing their channel. Before founding Spotter, DeBevoise was an executive at Machinima, where he worked between 2006 and 2014, per LinkedIn. Not every creator economy startup is built for creators.

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

TechCrunch

The idea for this book dates back to my time at ProgrammableWeb (2009-2014). Every developer (the origin of our name) has a few basic needs, like clear documentation, help getting started and use cases to spark creativity. Do you have any final piece of advice to share with developer-focused companies?

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

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 see too many people who do that.

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Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

Waymark is a digital creative marketing company with offices in Detroit. Revenue has tripled year over year since the company’s 2014 founding. A super fast-growing startup out of Detroit is Benzinga, a crypto and financial advice media outlet that is hiring everything from developers to journalists to build their team.

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