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How Can I Attract Publicity to My Startup?

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From spreading the word about your business to distributing an outline of your business’ purpose, here are 12 answers to the question, “How can I attract publicity to my startup?” The challenge within the quiz should relate back to how the startup provides value in a real-life setting.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. Think about how much more value was created for all these constituencies (and society) by Snap staying independent vs. Instagram selling to Facebook.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse. I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future.

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This is the Dumbest Op Ed I’ve Read in a While

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I understand that Adam Grant is a fairly popular professor at Wharton and has a book that some people loved called “Originals” (for me it interesting but not mind blowing, and I have some first-hand knowledge of some of its inaccuracies). I think his advice is this op-ed is bananas. Must I respond to every LinkedIn request?

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What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding

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We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. I see it in many young pups. Same as I felt.

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The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest (Part II): Does your City have a Moat?

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I’ll frame my response in the same context that I used for Part I of this series: first, we must appreciate that cities are just like startups. And to take full advantage of this moment, cities need to act more like the breakout startups who forge their own identities instead of staking claim to being a “Silicon X” city.

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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community

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And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts.