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Trust and the Paper Bag Man
Friday, May 14th, 2010
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The Paper Bag Man has gone loose on the community!

Wanted: Undentified Community Alien

Have you seen him? He looks like any impeccably dressed person in a nice suit, but is unidentifiable due to the large, brown paper bag on his head. Be cautious around him, we do not know who he is or what he is hiding!

You get the point, right? I mean, ask yourself whether or not you would trust a person approaching you on the street with a paper bag on his head. Trust, credibility and accountability go hand in hand, and adding a picture to your profile is a simple step to improving your credibility and signaling this to all who view your profile. In a community built on on-going trust and transparency in operations, this is imperative to realize. From transparent and honest communication, to having professionals actors managing the community fund and all investment procedures, to not taking commission on direct investments – we are trying to ensure trust and credibility in the community, making Grow VC a safe haven for all business prospects.

In the Grow Venture Community, we share our passions and ventures with each other, why would we not share our faces? Furthermore, we feel that this also empowers the community to act on it’s own – the vision is that the community would be self-sustaining, in a way that development and progress occurs from within the community. As you develop networks and relationships within the community, mutual trust and respect are cornerstones of these interactions.

This humorous update does actually serve a purpose. We sincerely hope you do take our most humble suggestion and use a picture on your Grow VC profile – a picture that might resemble you a bit more.

Your humble guide,

Markus

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Grow VC Podcast: Credibility
Friday, April 9th, 2010
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The second Grow VC Podcast – Everyone Funding Startups was released onto the world just a while ago. This time around, our discussion topic was “Credibility: How To Convince Your Audience” as suggested by one of our online followers. Like we said in our Podcast, give us a topic and odds are, we will discuss it.  The discussants this time were Grow VC cofounder and CEO Valto Loikkanen and your community servant, Markus.

The second Podcast featured these points:

>> Grow VC Member Highlight: LetMeLinkYou

>> Main Discussion Topic: Credibility: How To Convince Your Audience (Check it out here)

  • Building Credibility on an Individual Level
  • Pointers on Startups seeking team members and other stakeholders
  • Making and Delivering Promises

>> Introducing StartUp Stories

StartUp Stories will feature stories of startups written by Grow VC startups, from recollections of inception to success adventures. By pooling many startup blog posts into one blog, the audience will grow more rapidly and you will reach a community of peers, investors and experts. Do you also share our vision with StartUp Stories? Give us an email (markus@growvc.com)!

Check out StartUp Stories here: www.startup-stories.com

You can listen to the Podcast below and subscribe to the Grow VC Podcasts on iTunes. Please feel free to suggest discussion topics and ideas relevant to these Podcasts for the future. We’re looking forward to developing all these new channels and means with the community, so make sure you get heard!

Thank you for listening. You can get in touch by sending email directly to me, at markus@growvc.com.

Here’s looking at the future!

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