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4 features your business website must have (and how to optimize them). Today, it no longer takes a team of expensive engineers to build and maintain your website. Whether you're in the process of. CoFoundersLab Launches Meetups for Entrepreneurs in Barcelona. Entrepreneurship is the hottest word in Barcelona. 4 Things Co-Founders Need to Know to Split Equity and Avoid Conflict. 5 Steps to Build a Successful Startup Team. How to Growth Hack Your Way to a Billion-Dollar Company. These days, change is the o...
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4 Things Co-Founders Need to Know to Split Equity and Avoid Conflict
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4 Things Co-Founders Need to Know to Split Equity and Avoid Conflict. You have the idea. The founding team is in place. It’s time to execute, but first you have to make a critical calculation: the equity split. But how do you make a fair calculation of who owns what piece of equity, and why is it so important to get this right at the outset? Below, we’ll share four necessities that you must consider when you calculate your startup’s equity split. 1 Don’t for the love of all that is holy divide by N.
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This Is The Main Reason Why Startups Fail
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This Is The Main Reason Why Startups Fail. Let’s face it; to start at ground zero and still be in business even five years later is a very difficult task. It’s well known that a high percentage of startups fail. The exact number is hard to pin down particularly since we all don’t agree on what constitutes failure . Whether startups are bootstrapped or private equity funded, they face many of the same challenges. While many highly respected universities offer curriculum in entrepreneurship , it’s a very d...
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CoFoundersLab Launches Meetups for Entrepreneurs in Barcelona
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CoFoundersLab Launches Meetups for Entrepreneurs in Barcelona. Entrepreneurship is the hottest word in Barcelona. Between 2011 and 2014, the city. Experienced a 13% increase in new businesses. And today, more than half of the city’s job are considered knowledge-intensive. Because CoFoundersLab is a community of entrepreneurs (and our entire development team is based in Barcelona), we know firsthand how robust (and flourishing) Barcelona’s startup ecosystem is. An entrepreneur’s journey from seed to exit ...
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Success Story: Miami Herald Features Founders Who Met on CoFoundersLab
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Success Story: Miami Herald Features Founders Who Met on CoFoundersLab. Miami Herald’s Technology section featured Caribu. An EdTech startup whose founders met on CoFoundersLab. Read about the promising startup below. In business school, Alvaro Sabido didn’t waste time putting his education into practice. At Imperial College in London, Sabido and three co-founders began working on. Ultimately, three of Caribu’s founders left the company, leaving Sabido as the last man standing. The only problem was that ...
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How to Growth Hack Your Way to a Billion-Dollar Company
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How to Growth Hack Your Way to a Billion-Dollar Company. Just over a decade ago, a company’s marketing strategy included brand awareness campaigns, ad buys, and PR plays. These tactics were backed by heavily padded budgets and a build it and they will come mentality that left marketers crossing their fingers, hoping that their big campaign would bring new customers. No one. That’s the truth. Joe Shmoe, a new user, signed up and was prompted to confirm who he knew. When the tagged user logged in and confi...
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4 features your business website must have (and how to optimize them)
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4 features your business website must have (and how to optimize them). Today, it no longer takes a team of expensive engineers to build and maintain your website. Whether you're in the process of building an MVP or you've been running a business for years, you can learn how to create a custom website in just a few hours. What should you put on your website? Is a blog important? Are analytics too far down the line? 1 Make your homepage stand out. Then, right below them, is a clear CTA button. The scro...
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Why Every Startup Needs to Make UX the Cornerstore of its Sales Strategy
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Why Every Startup Needs to Make UX the Cornerstore of its Sales Strategy. Since I position myself as a person who's passionate about UX, I strongly believe that great user interface and user experience design can give one product a significant advantage over another. This thought reentered my brain last week when I had a chance to watch. Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle talk. Then, something surprising happened. I bought the Skechers sneakers. Why? Skechers made me absolutely love how their shoes looked and f...
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Today is a very special day. We are thrilled to share that we have completed the acquisition of. This Is The Main Reason Why Startups Fail. Let’s face it; to start at ground zero and still be in business even five years later is a very difficult task. It’s well. 9 Books Entrepreneurs Should Read Until The Very Last Page. Building a company from the ground up is one of the hardest things. The odds are against you keeping in mind that 9 out of. 4 Tips Entrepreneurs Can Use To Land The Perfect Office. Well,...
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Do Startups Really Need A CTO?
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Do Startups Really Need A CTO? Early stage tech startups face many challenges when transitioning from business plan to a product launch. These hurdles often result in significant waste of resources and ultimately can lead the startup to a stillbirth. Not a small feat for an early stage startup. Is a CTO critical to execute well? How can a non-technical founder find the right development partners? How do you assemble an early stage team of builders without selling your right arm to pay for it? For #3, fle...
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