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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding. This gets really challenging if it remains difficult to meet in person or to travel.

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7 Keys To Making A Business Out Of Your Great Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. Focus on collecting customer references.

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Going Global: How To Build A Distributed Team

YoungUpstarts

Going global is often a requisite growth path for businesses seeking to expand and whilst the model of setting up satellite offices is a tried and tested way to expand overseas a more recent organizational model is that of ‘distributed’ teams or companies. Distributed Teams: An Overview. The Need for a Harmonious Work Culture.

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7 Steps To A New Business From An Innovative Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. Focus on collecting customer references.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. One common mistake is to equate “IP” with “code” or other technical contributions.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? I dont think so.

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Why is it essential to have an agenda before a board meeting?

Board Effect

Much work goes into the agenda before the secretary can send it out to the board members in enough time to prepare for the upcoming meeting.The board chair reviews the agenda of the previous meeting, as well as the minutes. Technology can help make the setting and distributing the agenda easier. appeared first on BoardEffect.