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5 Reasons To Enlist Outside Advisors For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some key reasons why I believe every entrepreneur should create a formal Advisory Board or Board of Directors before they ask for funding, or even build their business plan: We all need a bit of reality to balance our passion. Board members provide inexpensive expertise. Skip insiders, friends, and family.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board. It was absolutely worth it.

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Resilience is the Only Sustainable Edge in Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Ask Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen about their first business, Traf-O-Data. They tried to make traffic signals intelligent way back in the early ‘70s, but found out that it takes more than technology to change government bureaucracies. They show resilience. Embrace the need to constantly innovate and change.

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Endeavor Miami Takes on Scaleup Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Bootcamps and workshops bring together high-level corporate, government, and university leaders for inspiration, advice, and training. Led by former Apple project manager Brian Brackeen, Kairos set up an Endeavor-facilitated advisory board. Entrepreneurs can tap these networks with a simple phone call. Endeavor Entrepreneurs.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. or what is first check and our response is that the seed landscape is so confusing, and what founders need is an investor with courage and conviction to lead their rounds and support them from day 1.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.