Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

The second Startup Community Leaders Mission to the USA took place from 11-18 March 2018, with 20 participants taking part, including 14 from 11 different regional towns in Queensland, 3 from Brisbane, one from Sydney, one from Adelaide, and one from New York (assisting the Beach City film crew). All the participants are running some type of program or space to support startup entrepreneurs or build the startup community in their region, from running accelerators and co-working spaces, to startu

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Berkonomics

MARCH 29, 2018

Close. Ever get bad advice? Sure. We all have in our past. Ever take that advice without question because the person giving it was an investor, a superior in rank, the chairperson of your board? I’ll bet you have at least one story of bad advice taken and being bitten as a result. As one illustration among many I can recall, let me tell you the story of the first investment made by a newly organized formal group of angel investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 26, 2018

Recently, Brooklyn City Councilman Rafael Espinal proposed a bill last Thursday that aims to make it illegal for private employees in New York City to be required to check and respond to their work emails or take part in work-related electronic communications during non-work hours. The idea is great--I'm sure everyone would love to live in a world where the moment we walk out of the office, the world just stops, and waits for us to return the next day.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2018

Who doesn’t enjoy receiving a thoughtful, useful gift? Just as in our personal lives, gift-giving can be a meaningful part of our professional life and business relationships. Below, we examine some of the reasons why we give gifts to clients, who should do the gifting, when and what we should gift, and how to do so graciously and with maximum impact.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2018

The Ideal Customer Profile. The perfect customer. Can you describe it for your startup? The more precisely you can describe it, the better. That will simplify disqualification. But articulating the ICP well isn’t enough. Vague ICPs are problematic. The company will focus on too broad a customer base, waste time and effort with unqualified prospects, and blunt their sales pitch with irrelevant value propositions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 25, 2018

Written for EO by Peter Kozodoy , partner and chief strategy officer at Gem Advertising and an EO New York member. . As an entrepreneur for more than a decade, I’ve learned a thing or two about sales. Namely: Sales isn’t linear, easy, intuitive or even simple. Rather, sales is a nuanced beast that requires complete alignment among the product, positioning, pricing, marketing, character and personality of the salesperson, timing, and a whole lot of that wonderful business strategy I like to call

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