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Government Funding Can Elevate Your Business: But Know What You’re Getting Into

Strategy Driven

Venture capitalists, self-funding, crowd-funding, and loans can all be a good fit at times, but in some industries, government grants are the easiest, fastest way to grow. In some cases, you might also be asked to participate in PR efforts, giving press interviews or meeting with government officials.

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A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Leading Blog

T REN GRIFFIN, who writes the well-read 25iq blog , has assembled a collection of insights for entrepreneurs from some of the most successful venture capitalists and coaches of business founders in the world. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved.

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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

CIOs network with Valley technology leaders and venture capitalists in search of creative solutions to traditional IT problems. His Valley peer convinced him to see his PR problem in a new light: as, in part, a problem of transparency.

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The Great Netflix Doom-Avoidance Machine

Harvard Business Review

It took a clear recovery from the company''s missteps, as evidenced by a blowout earnings report last month , to convince the Netflix PR team (and/or Hastings himself) that it was time to unleash him.

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Birthing a Baby Unicorn: The Anatomy of a Successful Startup Launch

Great Leadership By Dan

Bring PR to the table earl y. There are two types of PR firms: “upstream” strategic firms that have a seat at the big table in developing positioning and messaging, and “downstream” implementation firms. Before you launch, be sure to have a post-launch PR plan, as well as two months of demand gen programs defined, funded, and queued.

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Transparency is the New Leadership Imperative

Harvard Business Review

In 2006, he launched a blog , then called "Running a Hospital," which took the bold step of putting his unvarnished thoughts into the public realm, sans PR gloss. Paul Levy was the CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, one of the nation's best.