TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is one of the lessons I wish I understood when raising a Series B, so I hope you find this advice helpful when you navigate your larger raises. A good strategy memo becomes the guideline for how the entire diligence process unfolds. An elegant strategy memo is your most important document.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I had to understand their business requirements and document them all. Post MBA I went into strategy consulting where my job was to problem solve for clients. This is a problem for a strategy consultant because you are, by definition, a generalist that is thrown into new problems again and again.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

The intention is also to create asset protection strategies so creditors, predators or ex-family members, cannot access the monies that your mom and dad worked so hard to accumulate. You also need to know who are the executors, trustees, and beneficiaries of all your parents’ legal documents. CRN-3730060-082421.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

It’s slightly easier than telling every first-time entrepreneur to make sure to have a banner on the wall that reads, “remember to do your SEO, SEM, content marketing, social media, referral marketing strategies on a daily basis and with quantitative rigor.” Startup Advice' But I still believe Sean Ellis was right.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I am good at cranking out documents, memos, presentations, letters and spreadsheets. “I did that f **g documents yesterday! I’m sure all the doctors are cringing much like I would if I read your fund-raising advice. But here’s the thing – I do them with intense effort until they are mostly done.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

On a case-by-case basis, investors are willing to remove blocking language from company documents, lower their ownership percentage so they’re not in a blocking position, and aggregate their ownership across funds to a single fund manager. Don’t agree to it, it’s bad advice. I recommend to my companies not to do a time-based waiver.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

The library consolidates the knowledge and advice we’ve previously published and provides a central location for new content. From fundraising document templates , to tips on how to pitch , to strategies for navigating COVID — we hope that our library offers something useful to every founder.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

As an independent woman with a go-getter attitude, she shared insights with us into her life as an entrepreneur and what it was like getting YHS off the ground, as well as her advice for other young entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Origins of Young Help Suriname (YHS). How did Ashna overcome this challenge?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

If you’re not taking this zone-out down time I’ll bet you’re not having enough strategic reflection on your job, your company, your strategy. This can be your star Chief Architect who loves to code but hates having to handle the admin like testing, documentation, recruiting, etc.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A simple example would be sending resource material (documents or spreadsheets) or agendas that your employees must read before a scheduled meeting. Simply emailing them turns inefficient in the long run, as once the document has been updated, the newer versions would need to be emailed. Synchronous Communication.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. Everything needs to be part of a holistic company strategy. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. So how much PS is too much?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Additionally, we standardized the “allowance rates&# for services such as document storage, maximum numbers of users and we created more standardized packages of features that constituted an “up-sell&# to a our premium offerings. Tags: Startup Advice. Note: the original post in this series on sales segmentation is here.].

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

HW: The whole ‘get on rocketships without worrying about seats” – you ended up moving through Instacart in a variety of business and strategy roles before assuming the President role. What advice do you have for people in fast-growing companies about being a team-player but also taking advantage of the unique opportunity it provides?

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. Much of my time is spent setting the vision and strategy for Faire and driving the execution of that strategy. Communicating the strategy to the entire company requires multiple channels and repetition.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Stever Robbins, known on the Internet as the Get-It-Done Guy, outlines his strategies in his classic book “ 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More.” Don’t forget to delegate to other team members, and don’t be tempted by the current “crisis” to postpone the important tasks of strategy decisions and monitoring the progress of the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. I totally agree.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2024

Identify the challenges or underperforming areas where outside professional advice is under consideration. They seek “free advice” on issues that are much too complex to be addressed in that manner. Ask the consultant about their problem-solving approach and strategies for helping small businesses grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. But every freakin’ week there are delays in getting the lawyers to “turn around&# the documents. But they play a multi company, multi-year strategy. You want the deal to close in 4 weeks. Their lawyers blame yours.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy. Exit strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

It is the same movie I saw 10 years ago when every VC would say to me, “yeah, I get that you’re an online document sharing service, but what’s going to happen when Microsoft enters the market? It’s not a sufficient strategy to think you’re going to win because you’re competing with big, dumb companies. You’ll be dead.”. Or Box.net.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

One of the key documents for starting a business is a business plan. If you’re looking for investment capital, it’s an important document for investors to review to learn more about your company. These documents also tend to be written three to five years in advance. What kinds of problems does the business solve?

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. Free Early Stage Consult - Fox will hire an outside consultant to provide advice on pitch decks or executive summaries. Meeting Space - Need to set up a meeting?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

And often it is hard to motivate people to take on big tasks like strategy re-evaluations because everybody is busy doing investment work. We can help portfolio companies with announcements, PR strategies, crisis management and so forth. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. Challenges.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Jason Dressel is president of History Factory , which helps companies use their history and heritage to enhance and transform strategy, positioning, marketing and communication. But this documented history cannot be a hagiography of the departing CEO. Jason Dressel. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch. ” The Information reported in early March that Anthropic was seeking to raise $300 million at $4.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

There’s a lot of advice out there on how to grab people’s attention, but there’s one aspect of marketing that Robert Katai thinks isn’t talked about as often: maintaining their attention. The solution, he says, is a combination of content strategy and positioning. And is his advice applicable beyond borders?

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Would you recommend this strategy to founders? This strategy worked for two reasons: 1) By the end of the contract, the contractors had poured weeks of energy into the work – learning the code base and investing their time – and getting to know potential coworkers. It was an all-encompassing process.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2021

With these five strategies, your pathway to exit can be smooth and rewarding. Your content blog may need a new SEO strategy to raise your monthly traffic. They can offer you advice on what to look out for when selling a business and later guide you through the negotiation process. Prepare Your Business’s Documentation.

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Feedough

APRIL 24, 2021

But with the right strategy, decisions and action plan, you can start your dream business and become a successful entrepreneur. Documents or agreements that you need to pay extra attention to are: Employment Contract Non-Disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Agreement. A simple solution to this dilemma is to seek expert advice.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2024

There is a wealth of online marketing research resources to help a small business or startup to establish a marketing plan and strategy to achieve its marketing goals. With the right information, small businesses can formulate a strategy to move forward more confidently, by understanding their target customers and related market segment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When we interviewed him last July , Hughes explained that he would refer leads to EveryDeveloper when they needed to sort out their content strategy. Every developer (the origin of our name) has a few basic needs, like clear documentation, help getting started and use cases to spark creativity. The main takeaway?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

We didn’t have any documents due that night. Another similar strategy is with customers. I showed up around 10pm and hung out with a bunch of people I hardly ever get to spend time with. There was no artificial table between us, we weren’t scurrying between one meeting to the next. We just hung.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers. But when your team is the larger organization, you can’t use this strategy. This work is my zone of excellence.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 27, 2021

Under these laws, you’ll need to provide your investors with detailed documentation regarding why you want their investment and the potential risks associated with them investing with you. It is not intended to provide any legal advice. Receiving funding is an exciting time for your business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

But before we get to the lesson, I just plain like this intro into his negotiation strategy: Like a machismo first-time CEO I thought I should handle the negotiation myself. It seems like good advice to me. Bonus point) Don’t let the document get in the way. Then he introduces Stuart Lander , who taught him a lesson.

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