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How to Launch Your Startup Without a Launch

This is going to be BIG.

Be a Value Added Member of the Community Somewhere there exists a fantastic and thriving community of the kids of people you would like to use your service or app. If their first interaction with you is you trying to leverage that community for sales, youre going to get blocked. No one wants that.

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Talk to Your Heroes: How I Built a Virtual Board That Enhances My Decision-Making

Paul G. Silva

Using ChatGPT, you can create a virtual board of advisors that brings the wisdom and perspectives of your chosen mentors to your fingertips. Why Create a Virtual Advisory Board? Before I walk you through how to set up your own virtual board, let me share how mine is helping my decision-making process.

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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. Tips for other founders: 1. Show the learning loop.

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12 communication plan templates—and how to write your own

The Zapier Blog

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Add that to the "pudding will get hot when heated" warning and the trademark "shower cap fits only one head" disclaimer, and you've got yourself an era in which communication plans are not only a helpful organizational tool but a very necessary one.

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Three Uncomfortable (but Vital) Leadership Truths for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Being an entrepreneur doesn’t make you a great leader, Creating opportunities for others is commendable, but true leadership goes beyond business ownership. There is so much more to leadership that builds community and creates impact. That’s how a lot of entrepreneurs view leadership.

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Reflections on the Origin Story of EO Global Leadership Academy (GLA)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

by Erick Slabaugh, a long-standing EO member in Seattle and former director on the EO Global Board “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” The programmes have since evolved—but the original spirit of leadership, character and shared growth remains fully intact.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Even after Fowler’s article came to the forefront and investors Freada and Mitch Kapor broke ranks with their silent co-investors in their now-famous open letter , things didn’t get better. Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out.