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Advice for Web Startups: Web Startup Kings Do It Thus
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| Why hoarding or micro-managing the business tasks is not a good idea for a solo web entrepreneur. |
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The Art of Distribution
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| One of the important insights that the Startups 2006 panel hammered home was the importance of distribution for consumer-facing startups. (By the way, an astounding 13,000 people watched this video during the first week.) Many people use the word “distribution” as if it were a tactic when in fact it is a goal. Any bozo can say the word as if it’s a magic bullet; the test is the ability to achieve distribution. Here are my thoughts. |
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Trimming Startups, One Inscrutable Position at a Time
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| From Lucy Kellaway in the FT, a rule that I'm going to apply at more startups:
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Business Profile: dorothyduncan
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| dorothyduncan founders Mandy Duncan and Dorothy Ghettuba talk about what it took to start up their company and what advice they have for other African startups. |
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Recommendation: Get A Gmail Account
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| Every day I get emails from people working on new startups. I'm continually amazed at how many of them come from their existing corporate email address. |
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Online Business Tips For Success
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| These days, it seems everyone wants to start an online business - but how can you make sure you are successful, and not one of the many failed startups? |
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Startup Business Development Strategies – How To Avoid Unproductive Deals
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| Startup business development includes strategic marketing partnerships, sales channel development, and distribution agreements, generally with larger firms in the space. It can be a highly effective way for startups to grow rapidly; indeed, a business development deal can become a "company maker" for a young start-up. However, building a successful deal takes a significant amount of time and effort. Further, the process is often fraught with risks, such as management distraction and intellectual property theft.
To be effective, and to mitigate risks, startups should put each contemplated business development deal through a rigorous screening process before embarking on the negotiation path. We call this "finding the WIIFT-- what's in it for them" and in this article, we discuss how to go about it. |
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3 Key Factors For Raising Capital
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| Raising venture capital is hard. Statistics show that only 2 to 5% of startups successfully get their business plans funded by VCs. One of the main reasons startups are not able to raise capital is because they approach investors before they are really ready-- i.e., before they are "venture worthy." This article discusses three key factors that will help improve your chances of getting funded. |
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Book Review: "No Time Marketing" Can Help Startups Start Their PR & Marketing Campaigns
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| No Time Marketing may be able to help startups that lack the budget and staff to conduct a shoe-string marketing campaign. Written by Alyssa Dver, a former chief marketing officer, No Time Marketing is a short book (just 115 pages) that does a great job of capturing the essentials of marketing for busy executives, providing tips and actionable questions that can help startups develop a marketing plan. |
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Fred's Five Rules for Product/Market Fit
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| Love this: Fred Wilson's five rules for product/market fit at startups. I can almost always spot the MBAs pitching me -- there's zero obsession. |
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Four Stages of Startup Development
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| The Startup Genome project is a study of 650 startup companies in an attempt to understand why some startups suceed and others do not. The authors of the Startup Genome project aid significantly in understanding how and why startups develop and succeed or fail. |
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