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Raising Funds? Avoid These 7 Costly Investor Relations Mistakes

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Evaluate investors thoroughly, not just based on the size of their check, but whether they can provide strategic advice and introductions that support your vision. Founders are so anxious to avoid the pain of missing payroll or running out of cash in the near term that they make hasty decisions on investors that cost them later.

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Growth marketing roundup: TechCrunch Experts, creative testing and how to nail your narrative

TechCrunch

Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups : Founder of growth consultancy Marketing Cube Maya Moufarek joins Miranda Halpern for an interview as part of the TechCrunch Experts series. Provide a recommendation in this quick survey and we’ll share the results with everybody.

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Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my startup advice series. It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. Why do job hoppers make such bad employees at startups? -. You’re a startup founder. And good VC’s feel the same way. Not at all.

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What the MasterClass effect means for edtech

TechCrunch

In the rest of this newsletter, we will focus a lot on tactical advice for founders, from the money they raise to the peacock dance they might want to do one day. Keeping on the theme of tactical advice for founders, let’s move onto talking about marketing. How startups can ensure CCPA and GDPR compliance in 2021.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

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Founders should consider pre-Seed to Series A fundraising as full-time job – Phylicia Koh, VP, Play Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. Koh urges startup founders to “put on their big person pants and git gud at it”, emphasising the need for them to showcase their abilities and dedication to their business.

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12 Lessons Learned from Managing Investor Relations in a Startup

Startup Blogpost

Tobias Liebsch , Co-Founder, Fintalent.io Lead With Data for Investment Traction As a startup founder seeking investment, one major challenge I’ve faced is effectively communicating our vision and potential for scalability to prospective investors with limited time.

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