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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

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Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. Improving startup productivity ? Startup psychology / confidence ? What is a founder to do?

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

This is going to be BIG.

Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. The main driver of the skew towards men getting venture capital, statistically, is that far more men are pitching. What I do think is going on is that men and women start the pitch process at different stages. Why so many mixed teams?

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. I use WordPress.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Let me be sure to use me some Luma Partners. A journalist has a visual chart they can use. They’re different. More strategic.

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In Defense of Uber: An Unbiased Opinion

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It’s a fantastic startup that has had a amazing impact on society. It’s not just about people like me who can (and do) turn up in nearly any city in the US and immediately book a ride. The author followed an Uber driver around and used it as evidence of why Uber drivers hate the service. Is Uber evil? I know that.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. A large percentage of startups never apply to either.

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Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising

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When you run a startup you’re always on borrowed time. There is no way to run a startup business without accepting at least a little bit of cognitive dissonance as you persuade yourself that one way or the other you’ll find a way to make it work while suppressing the very real possibility that you may not.

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