Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

In co-authoring Beyond Product , I set out to help founders with exactly this challenge. In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

He is a successful entrepreneur, VC, 2x best-selling author, speaker, super connector to startups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter/executive producer. His latest venture, The Brain Wrx , revolutionizes the way founders approach and grasp growth by providing a straightforward and effective framework for success.

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StartupNation

MAY 10, 2021

Despite differences in their products and target audiences, the two companies likely followed similar intellectual property protection strategies on their way to the valuations that gave them unicorn status. A brief overview of the OneStream and StockX intellectual property strategies. Start Before You’re Ready. Trademarks. Copyrights.

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Gust

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I found a book on this subject, “ The 4 Disciplines of Execution ,” by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling, which seems to talk well to startups as well as the corporate world it was written for. The team needs to see the process practiced by the startup founder, as well as preached regularly.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

But like many companies over the past five years it hired aggressively and probably had some degree of straying off of a core strategy and some amount of excess jobs relative to its current revenue forecasts and opportunities. I’ve heard every argument in the book about why you can’t cut office space, headcount or Kind bars.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

As building in public continues to gain popularity with early-stage startup founders, Murmur, coming out of stealth today, wants to leverage that natural transparency to a louder frequency. Founded by Aaron Dignan , Murmur helps startups create work agreements based on the policies of other startups.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Every startup founder I know talks about the chaos of their business, which they usually attribute to that burst of growth that is required to get to positive cash flow. I “second the message” that chaos never subsides, from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

Afore’s take on the idea is to help founders rapidly pitch expert investors while also helping those investors get differentiated deal flow on a consistent basis. You can read my whole piece on TechCrunch+: “Is it time for a Common App for startup founders?” Book your pass ASAP! . Lawsuit and layoffs at Carta.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

We want to know how the founder hooked the VC, what makes their partnership work and how other founders can improve their storytelling and pitching. TechCrunch Live helps founders build better venture-backed businesses. What questions did the founders answer that made the VCs want to learn more?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the best strategies for doing that.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

The universal challenge of every startup founder is to get everything done that needs to get done, and still have a life. Stever Robbins, known on the Internet as the Get-It-Done Guy, outlines his strategies in his classic book “ 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More.” To Do List Chalkboard by Mufidah Kassalias, on Flickr.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Famously Overlooked: How Underestimated Founders Survive and Thrive in a Competitive Market , with Capital Connect by J.P. How Banks and Fintech Startups Can Effectively Co-Thrive , with Wells Fargo. .: Breaking into the Healthcare Monolith: Strategies for Working with Payors and Providers , with InterSystems. 2:00 p.m. –

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As a startup, it is the best way to gain traction and create raving fans. Logan Rae , Founder, Argon Agency Gain a Loyal Following and Community Content marketing helps startups to gain a loyal following and community. Collaboration like that can be a major boost to any startup. UGC goes a long way.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Netscape founder Marc Andreesen, now a prolific startup investor, describes entrepreneurial risk management in terms of peeling an onion. On day one of a startup, you have a bulb full of every possible kind of risk. In my experience, the more successful strategy is to slice through the onion rather than peeling it.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You have achieved what most founders do not, real customers, paying for something you have created. This is the inflection point where you need to move from Founder to CEO. And yet, according to Noam Wasserman, The Founder’s Dilemma , Harvard Business Review, “Four out of five entrepreneurs are forced to step down from the CEO’s post.”

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A Memphis, Tennessee, company called UpSquad certainly had near-universal appeal in mind as its founders explored how to reduce common struggles faced by businesspeople. Many teams at startup businesses see Amazon as a competitor since it has such a tremendous presence in the marketplace. However, brilliance is not enough for success.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Founders from outside a tech-ecosystem are surrounded by bad advice, since building a startup is different from other kinds of businesses. Those myths are: (1) Don’t share your idea; (2) Good ideas must be bulletproof; (3) Startups require your total commitment; (4) Live on a shoestring; and, (5) Stick to what you know.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. June 19th, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. But this strategy great depends on point 3.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

They’re not buying a book on Amazon or shoes on Zappos. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. It’s important in aligning internal strategy, communicating with others, talking with partner, recruiting and, yes, raising VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Technical founder.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Entrepreneurs often grapple with the viability of their new business ideas, and to shed light on this crucial step, we’ve gathered twenty-one insights from Founders and CEOs. Go to websites like Amazon for physical products and books, which are great for almost any niche. What do they like, and what do they wish was better?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. I always knew I wanted to find some way to help founders and innovators get their great ideas out into the world. How do you collaborate with startups? From there we design a logo.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 3, 2023

Vito Vishnepolsky , Founder and Director, Martal Group Customers Have Unpredictable Circumstances The customer’s buying journey does not follow a straight line. Cesar Cruz , Co-founder, Sebastian Cruz Couture Understand the Post-purchase Customer Journey Startup teams should look beyond the beginning of the customer buying journey.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

For many first-time founders in fundraising mode, the current market correction for publicly-traded tech companies has been similarly jarring. ” Conditions change, and so do investor expectations, which means founders should reframe their thinking about acceptable entry valuations and revisit their spending plans.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Nnamdi Okike, co-founder and managing partner, 645 Ventures. Emily Melton, founder and managing partner, Threshold Ventures. We’ll cover digital health in more depth this year through additional surveys, vertical reporting, founder interviews and much more. Elizabeth Yin, general partner, Hustle Fund. Walter Thompson.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitalists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. no-equity stipend + corporate pilot opportunities with our founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Many of the companies above have been bottled up for years behind privately funded growth strategies. The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). Our electric power infrastructure is old, aging and not secure,” said Abe Yokell, co-founder of the energy and climate-focused venture capital firm Congruent Ventures. TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Startup founders like to see nice, beautiful analytics dashboards. The same sort of process can work for business strategy, marketing, generating blog posts, generating content, web pages, landing pages, etc. And let your product be your marketing. At Least initially! And all sorts of analytics and dashboards on Day 1.

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