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    1. "Don't be a startup zombie" by Joe Dwyer

      Explore Built in Chicago (8 hours, 44 min ago)

      "Don't be a startup zombie" by Joe Dwyer This post was written by Joe Dwyer, serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and originally appeared on his blog here. The signs of a startup zombie Caffeine, bleary eyes, and sleepless nights. And the occasional zombie moan. During my initial year as a first time founder, I pulled more all-nighters than I can count. With little working capital, I thought I had no choice. I was also proud of what I was building and my willingness to work hard to get things done. My attitude about all-nighters (Read Full Article)

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    2. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks – with Ramit Sethi

      Explore mixergy.com (10 hours, 1 minute ago)

      Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks – with Ramit Sethi Andrew: Three messages before we get started. If you’re a tech entrepreneur, don’t you have unique legal needs that the average lawyer can’t help you with? That’s why you need Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law. If you read his articles on Venture Beat, you know that he can help you with issues like raising money, or issuing stock options, or even deciding whether to form a corporation. Scott Edward Walker is the entrepreneur’s lawyer. See him at walkercorporatelaw.com. And do you remem (Read Full Article)

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    3. Business Essential You Might Be Missing

      Explore inc.com (11 hours, 14 min ago) Recruiting

      Business Essential You Might Be Missing A Silicon Valley CEO tells how he learned that company values aren't a nice add-on. They're mandatory to holding your business together. By Jessica Stillman | @EntryLevelRebel | shutterstock images Tweet You've got the idea for a company and posess the necessary skills. Maybe you even have money, co-founders and a solid business plan, but one Silicon Valley CEO says there’s one additional, essential ingredient your new company might be missing: values. You may think of things like mission, value (Read Full Article)

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    4. YouTube - How to Get Traffic to your Startup

      Explore YouTube (12 hours, 31 min ago) Marketing

      http://www.thefundingguru.com This is a great video that will help you get tonnes of free website traffic for your startup. Learn how to get free traffic in this video. For targeted traffic so you can engage with investors, new customers and advisors. For targeted traffic for your startup website, blog this is a great "How to Get Traffic" technique that will help you get BUZZ for your new business. (Read Full Article)

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    5. Startup Tribes: Tips on Roles and Recruiting

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (10 hours ago) Marketing

      (18 minutes ago) Startup Branding: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs (6 days ago) 7 Lessons On Startup Funding From a Research Scientist (1 week ago) The Big List: The Best and Worst Startup Stuff In 2011 (3 weeks ago) 13 Ways To Think About And Crush Your Competition (1 month ago) Visiting The Valley: Why It's A Special Place For Startups (1 month ago) Insider Tips From HubSpot's Launch of Marketing Grader (1 month ago) Cult of Product: Marketing I (Read Full Article)

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    6. Why being an early stage VC is like being a college football coach

      Explore - This is going to be BIG! (12 hours, 45 min ago) Recruiting

      He tried to generalize and say that's why all the college coaches are the fresh-faced energetic types and why the NFL coaches look like they've been doing nothing but pouring over video at a desk for 90 hours a week with coffee and a donut. I don't have the stats to prove or disprove that particular point, and I try to avoid generalizations, but what is certainly clear to me that the most important thing in college football as a coach is being able to recruit the talent. You have to be able to w (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Charlie O'Donnell   NFL

    7. Seven Money Mistakes Young Entrepreneurs Make

      View all 3 articles » Explore Business & Small Business (16 hours, 16 min ago) Marketing

      Seven Money Mistakes Young Entrepreneurs Make When Hagan Major, 26, started his online-ad buying business more than a decade ago, he didn't know the first thing about finances. "We were funneling all of our money into the business and not taking anything out. . . the company was buying us lunch," says Major, co-founder of YellowHammer Media Group in New York. Further, blurring the line between his personal and business finances wasn't just an organizational headache. "It made taxes really complicated," he says. After accidentally using his (Read Full Article)

      6 Tips for Borrowing Startup Funds from Friends or Family - mbda.gov   View article
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    8. 10 Clever Ways Your Email Signature Can Support Your Marketing

      View all 2 articles » Explore Internet Marketing Blog (Jan 26 2012) Marketing

      You know that you're a true email marketer if every single one of your emails includes a call-to-action. And I'm not talking about email marketing blasts here. What I have in mind are the individual, personal email messages you send on an everyday basis. Yes, your personal email signature can provide a serious marketing opportunity. You are most likely already using your own email signature to provide information about who you are and where you work. But you can take this practice to the next le (Read Full Article)

      6 Tips to Get People to Look Past Your Age and See an Expert - youngentrepreneur.com   View article

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    9. 57 Things I've Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies

      View all 2 articles » Explore Business Insider (Jan 25 2012) Marketing

      1/58 1. Build something you are personally passionate about 2. User experience matters a lot 3. Be technical 4. The CEO of a startup must, must, must be the product manager 5. Stack rank your features 6. Use a bug tracking system and religiously manage development action items from it. 7. Ship it 8. Ship it fast and ship it often 9. The only thing that matters is how good your product is 10. The only judge of how good your product is is how much y (Read Full Article)

      Fail Fast, Fail Cheap - Businessweek   View article

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    10. 10 Ways Top Business Leaders Avoid The Loneliness

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Jan 25 2012)

      10 Ways Top Business Leaders Avoid The Loneliness One of the toughest things about running a business is the feeling of loneliness and isolation. You are on your own and nobody supports you because it’s hard for them to see what you see and feel the excitement that you feel at the critical stages. This is especially true if you run your small business from home. The leadership position alone can cause loneliness and disconnectedness, and that sometimes results in self-defeating behaviors. If your personality already leans toward narcissism, bei (Read Full Article)

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    1. 12 Negotiation Tips Every Start-up Entrepreneur Should Know

      Explore Arbitrage Magazine (7 hours, 24 min ago)

      An Entrepreneur spends a lot of time negotiating in his life, be it with vendors, customers, employees, investors or even family back home. Having spent a lot of time with purchase or supply-chain guys in enterprises, whose primary job is to negotiate day in and day out, there are quite a few tricks ! You won’t learn these things in B-schools as they have been learnt from a lot of first-hand experiences and trial and errors by top Entrepreneurs. 1. Play your cards close to your chest : A lot of (Read Full Article)

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    2. 10 Startup Survival Tips in the Age of the Platform - Business Exchange

      Explore Business Exchange (8 hours, 44 min ago) Marketing

      10 Startup Survival Tips in the Age of the Platfor... Every startup, as well as mature business, needs to learn as much as possible from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,... Added to Bootstrapping a Startup by Connectture com share your reaction | | add to topics | report save | No reactions yet Join now Discover, organize and share content on Business Exchange. Already a user? Sign in to share your reaction. (Read Full Article)

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    3. Notifo’s Founder: “My Startup Is Dead.” See What He Learned – with Chad Etzel

      Explore mixergy.com (10 hours, 1 minute ago)

      Notifo’s Founder: “My Startup Is Dead.” See What He Learned – with Chad Etzel Andrew: Hey, before we get started, these three messages. First, when you’re facing a tough business problem, like, “How do I get customers? Where do you go?” Have you noticed that when you do a Google search for those kind of issues, you end up with a poorly-written, link-bait article? Well, with Mixergy’s premium membership, proven entrepreneurs turn on their computers and teach you their techniques for getting customers, or press, or new employees, or anything else that you need to be an incr (Read Full Article)

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    1. 10 Questions Every Global Start-Up Needs to Answer to Survive

      Explore Startup Advice (Nov 4 2010) Legal
      by Jeanne P. Goulet

      10 Questions Every Global Start-Up Needs to Answer to Survive Early Stage Questions for Every Global Start-up A Start-up wants to “pinch” everyone penny, only spend on “value added” endeavors like technology and marketing and postpone administrative matters until later in the life cycle. BUT, it is at the beginning “formation stage” that Start-ups need to begin working with legal, accounting (domestic and international tax specialists) who can ask the right questions and guide them through the labyrinth of federal, international and state tax rules and regulations. No matter what the geographic origin, decisions made by Start-ups at their earliest stages are likely to be among the most critical – ... (Read Full Article)

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  5. Funding

    1. How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast

      Explore How to Change the World (11 hours, 14 min ago) Funding

      How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast This is the third post in my Microsoft partnership, and it’s all about numbers. The topic is crafting your financial forecast to include in your pitch. Bill Reichert, my partner at Garage Technology Ventures, created an Excel model and wrote this blog post. There’s a lesson in this too: Get the best person for the job. His grasp of financial models and how to present them exceeds mine by two orders of magnitude. The Purpose of Financial Projections When it comes to financial projections, there a (Read Full Article)

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    2. 7 Lessons On Startup Funding From a Research Scientist

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Jan 16 2012) Funding , Marketing

      The following is a guest post by Ty Danco. Ty is an angel investor and startup mentor. Read more of his thoughts at tydanco.com. My wife isn't in business, but she is wise in the way of funding. Just as I have experience on both sides of the funding table (as an entrepreneur and as an angel), so does she. As a research scientist, she gets her own grants and also reviews grants from others. While she doesn't talk in startup lingo (pivots, minimum viable product, etc.), she has taught me that many of the issues we face as entrepreneurs ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Eric Ries   Steve Blank   Ty Danco

    3. 10 Touchstones to Secure Startup Funding

      Explore labs.openviewpartners.com (Jan 13 2012) Funding

      10 Touchstones to Secure Startup Funding Dave Barrett has compiled a guide to early stage venture funding and offers a few tips that work well when pitching ideas. Here are a handful of tips he recommends: 1. Articulate a killer opportunity and a great company in the making. Barrettt says many teams don’t spend the time to prepare a discussion about how to take a solid shot at bei (Read Full Article)

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