Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women. Back to women.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2014

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Despite all the focus you hear on external investors, over 90% of startups today are self-funded. Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 16, 2018

One of the biggest challenges that the startup founders face during the initial stage is the lack of a well-proficient, professional marketing team. A well-rounded marketing team can make or break a startup and that’s why it is essential to hire the very best. The same rule applies to hire the startup marketing team.

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Gust

JUNE 23, 2014

Blog image via Pixabay.com. With the estimated 510 million live websites at last year-end, and 280,000 new ones being added every day, the biggest challenge for an entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

The second Startup Community Leaders Mission to the USA took place from 11-18 March 2018, with 20 participants taking part, including 14 from 11 different regional towns in Queensland, 3 from Brisbane, one from Sydney, one from Adelaide, and one from New York (assisting the Beach City film crew). Why we run this particular mission.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 18, 2016

That's the kind of pace a startup needs to be on--except that most startups treat their PR as if all you need to do is to launch your message at a debate and cross your fingers after that. Here are five things startup founders can take away from the way campaigns work: 1) Campaigns have a message. time spent face to face.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! The same kind of tasks that a startup team has. I met for coffee with one of my favorite “startup advisors” in LA. I like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. He has a startup. Operations.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Truth About Building Startups from msuster. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. I recently had coffee with a young friend who just finished his first startup. So you ask why on Earth being a founder is stressful? Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur.

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Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Here is a list of ways that you can use public relations to benefit your startup, even before it is started: Make yourself a spokesman for your domain. In a startup, you are the brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

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. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. But it’s actually not that simple.

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Gust

JUNE 22, 2014

Blog image via Pixabay.com. With the estimated 510 million live websites at last year-end, and 280,000 new ones being added every day, the biggest challenge for an entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” But not everybody has the right skills to build a highly successful and valuable startup from scratch. Nobody sees you as a CEO since you’ve never been one?

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Gust

JUNE 8, 2014

Virtual Team meeting image via Wikimedia blog. Almost every startup is a virtual team these days, since most don’t start out with dedicated office space, and some or all members of the team work part-time or out of their own home. Invested Interests entrepreneur startup virtual teams'

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Gust

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I just read Social Proof Is the New Currency on the Social Media Today blog. I don’t agree completely — I think a fat bank account is a really good thing too — but I do think it summarizes an important truth: All startups looking for investment need to deal with what that post is calling social proof. Author Daniel Lay writes: .

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I recently got connected to Alyssa Hitaka at TopTierStartups.com , a new content site rich with startup related news, tips and interviews with startup founders. I was curious what her startup founders were seeing, in terms of the best marketing strategies they are successfully using today.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. hit nearly $1.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Announced today, AWS has created a 10-week program for generative AI startups around the globe. There’s also a Demo Day in San Francisco at the end of the program.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

In the startup world, we often talk about painkillers versus vitamins. Hiring your first employees into a startup is storytelling: You are spinning a story that contrasts their steady, reliable job at an established company, pitching it against taking a chance on your startup. It sounds so simple. Isn’t this just marketing?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wrote a blog post about being hands on where I argued that startup founders need to be hands-on or in my words, “you can’t run a burger chain if you’ve never flipped burgers.&#. I once had a startup team pitch me for an investment where the President of the company led the first call with me on his own.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. I recently had coffee with a young friend who just finished his first startup. He has staked his reputation on a project to use the software of some shitty 2-year-old startup company because he believes! Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

.” A prolific Twitter user , writer and now podcaster , he advises startups to “ just blow your own mind ” to best explain the value of what you are offering. What has led you from web development and startups to growth marketing in recent years, and most recently to your own personal writing for the public on Twitter, etc.?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. Either would be fine with startups, so long as they can easily change their valuation. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. When I’m in, I’m in.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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. Being aware of this bias can help founders take a balanced perspective. Investors want to put money into startups primed for growth. The post Raising Funds?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

45 days for a typical startup to hire a technology engineer. 44 percent of startups fail within the fourth year of their existence. The other market segment which has understood the advantage of being able to access a rich talent pool of elite talent is startups. Wages constitute the majority of that expense. Talent is scarce.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2021

Kara shared seven lessons she’s learned in her 15 years as a startup founder of one of the most successful beverage companies in the US. and more articles from the EO blog. . The post 7 Hints for Entrepreneurial Success from Hint Water Founder Kara Goldin appeared first on THE BLOG. Identify the problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. And there you have it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

For high-achieving startup founders and entrepreneurs, marketing might feel like a no-brainer to tackle on your own. If your startup or SMB has that aforementioned US$175,000 constraint, you essentially get to choose two professionals to keep on staff—and that hardly gives you enough to cover the costs of their tools and projects.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2020

I used this title for possibly the most regrettable blog post I have written on AVC back in 2011. Alex starts off his post with this assertion: 2019 was the year when VCs and startup founders soured on paid acquisition. I am not sure if that is true, but if it is, it suggests a dramatic change in the startup playbook.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

On September 28, LinkedIn released its Top Startups list, which is its self-described annual ranking of 50 emerging U.S. Drilling down, I learned that among the seven fintech startups that made the list, there are 125+ open roles. But the Palo Alto–based company was among the startups that was hit very hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. As a result, simple blog posts lost their luster years ago, found reporter Ron Miller. To see what startups can learn from SaaS’ new approach to content marketing, he interviewed several analysts and experts. “If Walter Thompson.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go. In this blog post, I’ll highlight a pretty neat data-driven approach that we used at Uizard to identify the initial price for our SaaS monthly subscription plans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 7, 2013

I often wonder about how to measure the success of this blog. Feedburner subscribers, retweets, time on site aren’t much better because they don’t measure the true performance of a blog - what fraction of an audience the blog reaches. For example, this blog targets startup founders, managers and employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Today the company announced a $100 million investment fund to encourage the most promising startups using the Zoom toolset to launch a business by giving them funding, while using that as a springboard to encourage other developers to take advantage of the tooling on the platform. million in each startup in the portfolio.

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