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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. It’s like “direct” traffic to your website that seems to magically appear. When to start PR?

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Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

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My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. It’s your baby. ” But lately I’m more swayed by the wise words of Reid Hoffman. You took the biggest leap of faith.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Can’t list them all.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. the link is here.

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Building a Groundbreaking Platform for Mental Health Support With Passion and Purpose

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Vikram Beri is an EO New Delhi member and the director of business development at FieldKing , a manufacturer of farm equipment founded by his grandfather in 1978. I heard things take time. I didn’t know that this this thing would feel like a lifetime. Her: They may, but then they are both there for the same thing.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. You’re a small fish.

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

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I’ve done 4 seed investments in the past year and they are 100% referenceable. Future investors will also look at whether your angels “re-upped&# if you hit a bump in the road. If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling.

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