We use sprout social. They have a free tier and pretty complete. http://sproutsocial.com
Most advisors get between .25% to 1%. 1% assumed they are VERY important and will be active in either recruiting or raising capital (2 of the most important areas). Advisors don't do it for the equity - at least they shouldn't - what they want more than anything is recognition from you publicly...
For background, I'm an active board member for two charities, am a past board member of CIRA (which runs the .CA domain) and am a graduate non-profit governance essentials course from the Institute of Corporate Directors. I also built Canada's first crowdfunding website that distributed over $3m...
We use github for code hosting, issue tracking system and specs ( the wiki portion ). Dropbox for large files like designs, videos. Basecamp for collaboration and discussion coupled with real time chats over hipchat. I bought into the appcelerator promise a while back but had since abandoned it...
I would google bunch of SEO related keywords (like "how to rank high on Google" or something like that).. see who pops up in the SERPs. If SEO people/company can't SEO themselves.. that tells you a lot about them. You don't take diet tips from overweight people. You don't take investment tips ...
Hi, I think there is a 20/80 rule that applies here too where 20% share is of the quality and great content while the rest is in how well you promote it. We've been doing that too and saw good share on our personal blog at Omnicore. One more tip that I can give is to bring in experts as the Eg...
TL;DR; Yes it's bad, without understanding context. Doing this, or any other organization rule needs to be considered based on the culture of the company and the goals. It's dangerous to take this one action out of context as to Buffer's purpose in building their organization. Is it good? For ...
With 17+ years in PR, and my work as chair/co-chair with the MIT Enterprise Forum in Chicago, let me add to what has already been said. You have two industries (aka targets) to approach - technology & advertising. Try to include a demo video in your media pitch/kit. Create and tell a story t...
Here's my rule for numbers. 100 target customers that I've done customer discovery interviews with. 10 customers (who've paid / given me money) 25 who are active beta testers. I usually use that order of things as well. I like to get early adopters to give me money to validate their feedback, t...
Since you do not have a duty to disclose prior art to the USPTO, you could approach your competitor and try to negotiate a license for their patent pending technology. However, there are two caveats to this approach. First, your competitor does have a duty to disclose prior art to the USPTO. If ...