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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

They had a viral promotional technique that encouraged your friends to download their app to watch a video they posted and a channel (Facebook) that was trying to grow its video audience. The fees generated from speaking engagements and consulting can be worth several times the investment of getting your book on a best seller list.

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How Influencers Can Legally Raise Capital for Funds and Companies

David Teten VC

Nik Talreja : It’s always best to consult your attorney to ensure you get a full download on your particular situation, so consider the following with a grain of salt. Any manager who is considering raising under 506(c) should consult their legal counsel and / or fund administrator. How large is this risk?

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This startup is betting that you want to binge remote-work content

TechCrunch

As the coronavirus pandemic evolved into a genuine threat, offices closed to limit spread and people suddenly had to download Zoom and work from home. Launching today, wrkfrce will offer content, job postings and consulting services to help workers understand how to adapt and thrive in a remote-work environment.

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SkorLife gives control of credit data back to Indonesian consumers

TechCrunch

That’s why they built the app, which not only lets people see their credit histories for free, but also gives personalized advice on how to improve data. SkorLife says the private, alpha version of its app has been downloaded more than 3,000 times and is growing organically by 50 to 60 new users a day. million in pre-seed funding.

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

Both Sides of the Table

Early-stage companies shouldn’t: outsource core product development, have consulting firms build it for them to speed up time-to-market, shouldn’t hire too many business people until product is complete and early product/market fit tested. Your first sales people should be consultative sellers who can fuel evangelical sales.

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Luos is building an API to help embedded engineers connect easily to any hardware component

TechCrunch

To get things started, the startup seeded it with some common ones like motors, but an embedded developer can download the open source framework and create one anytime, and then share it with the community.

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What is the Best CRM and Marketing Tech Platform for a New Private Equity/Venture Capital Fund?

David Teten VC

HubSpot doesn’t allow blocking of downloads and Docsend does, so we continue to use them. . The best predictor for failed Salesforce implementation is whether or not the firm uses a consultant with real experience of private equity to setup and maintain the platform. downloadable white papers, models, etc). He recommended: .