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Lean and Mean: How to Boost Startup Growth on a Shoestring Budget

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This roadmap, or strategic plan, doesn’t have to be an elaborate or intimidating document that ends up unused. Community Building: Initiating or actively contributing to an online community relevant to your audience provides a platform for direct engagement and relationship building.

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How early should you connect to a VC? Here's some data.

This is going to be BIG.

Theoretically, someone could meet you, sign your document, and write you a check for deposit that day, but that''s not how it usually works. One of the most important assets you have is your network--but it''s not your network of founders. How long does it take from first meeting a VC to getting cash in the bank?

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How Caribbean entrepreneurs are tackling climate change with their businesses?

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

To preserve and protect the Earth for our communities, we must make a collective investment to ensure that generations of global citizens have access to clean and healthy environments. The views and opinions expressed here belong to the author or interviewee and do not necessarily reflect those of the YLAI Network or the U.S.

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What I did on my summer vacation: The First LP Close ($3.5mm) of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

That product isn't money--it's their time, attention, sound advice and network. One of the first things on my agenda now that all this legal documentation is behind me is to spend more time with some of the other more senior investors in New York and the Valley as well to hear learnings from when their firms first got off the ground.

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Are you heading toward burnout?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Take time to journal and document the source of your stress. Here’s a trick I use to stay connected to my network. My mentor, Warren Rustand, has taught me the value of using the following model: Family + Business + Personal + Community. Seek to identify any stressors that are causing negative emotions. Write it down.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Communicating with the developers who write code. Working with writers to create documentation. The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. Building Communities.

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Conscious fashion promotes traditional Panamanian artisans

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

She saw a need for local artisans in this community to be given the same opportunities as those in the modern industry. The history of cutarras is not clearly documented: Oral tradition tells us that cutarras first appeared in Panama with the arrival of the Spaniards, who introduced cattle into the lands of the Azuero peninsula.

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