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The author is a legendary ad man who has won over a 100 awards in his career. He is also an author, a novelist a playwright and song writer. Now he has founded the unusual and powerful website adytude.com which helps power other websites, brands and businesses ahead
You think your startup problems are all gone when you get the bigger money but you may be very very wrong. There are a number of beasts lurking on the journey ahead!
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The most risky phase for a startup is the ‘hyper growth’ stage. This is when they have just raised $25 million and have to grow 10x in revenues in one year. They throw ‘warm bodies’ into the battle in the hope much more people mean much more revenues
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Let’s see where we’ve got so far. We launched a breakout site. Managed to build a unique community with session times that are some of the highest in the world. Have signed on more than 50 clients. Received more than a million dollars in funding
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A CEO of a big venture capital fund comes down the elevator from the 33rd Floor. He’s having a tough day. There’s news that one of his large recent investments isn’t faring too well. It’s been down valued by 25 per cent and the CEO there has jumped ship forcing one of the founders to take over the role
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Indian startups have raised over $2 billion of funding in the first half of this year with over 500 or so companies getting funded. That’s not half bad
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An internet startup is like a journey in Lord of the Rings. At different stages you meet different creatures and monsters like Elves, Gollums, Black Riders, Orcs and other strange tribes. Here are some to look out for
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Power. Oh sure you have lots of power, but the sword cuts both ways. You have the power to run the company the way you want without answering to anyone
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Funding takes a long time. Even when you think that a deal is almost closed it will be a long time before a cheque hits your bank
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Is It Goo Or Good? Often you have a goo idea! Yup — I’ve deliberately left out the ‘d’ — because you haven’t made it into a good idea yet
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Ais for Adytude and that’s how I’m here in the first place, writing about start ups, working and thinking and strategizing non stop…but more about that later
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