Teaching Startup: This is why your free-tier customers are killing your business
Let’s talk about the damage being done to your company by customers who aren’t actually paying customers.
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Teaching Startup: How to transform a service into a product & avoid a killer mistake
If our service isn’t acting like a product and evolving into a product, we can be sure that technology, market trends, and skill scarcity will turn our business into a race against time. So I’ll take you through each of the overarching strategies and how I’ve used them to transition from a service business to a fully-functional product company, and how to avoid the killer mistakes along the way.
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Teaching Startup: How new, emerging ventures develop investor relationships
In what non-salesy, non-awkward way can you genuinely develop all these relationships with potential investors over time? How do you communicate: “Hey I know you have money, but I’m not asking yet….but also, please know I exist”? Some suggestions for you …
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Teaching Startup: Recapping the series to date
Joe Procopio is the founder of teachingstartup.com and the COO of IoT/Beer startup Precision Fermentation. His Teaching Startup columns appear on Tuesday. Joe has a long entrepreneurial history in the Triangle that includes Spiffy, Automated Insights, and ExitEvent. The series launched in December. Here are the previous posts and Joe’s introduction to the series.
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Teaching Startup: How to scale to 50 employees without losing your culture
The first 10 people you bring on board will dictate the company culture for the next 20 to 50. I can’t overstate the importance of getting these hires 100% right. In fact, I’d go so far as to say the road to success is littered with companies that couldn’t find 10 critical hires.
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Teaching Startup: Hiring and keeping top talent on a new business budget
To succeed in startup, you not only have to land the best talent, but you have to land and keep the best talent at the most value. Here’s how you do that, with four secrets no one else might tell you. Read on to find out what they are.
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Teaching Startup: How to pay your employees fairly
Edior’s note: This is post one of three for a “Hiring Series,” part of the “Teaching Startup” series from serial entrepreneur Joe Procopio. Posts appear on Tuesdays. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Are you being paid fairly? I need an honest answer. I’ll go first, and if I’m being totally...
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Teaching Startup: A new series for entrepreneurs launches at TechWire
Starting Tuesday, I’ll bring a bit of Teaching Startup to TechWire every week. I hope you find it honest, actionable, and objective, and I hope it helps you take your business to the next level.
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