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Created 8 years ago
I founded and exited 2 startups in 8 years so I know every challenge you face regarding starting a business from scratch and will not give you general non-specific advise. For example, are you hiring your first employee and want to have a list of everything you need to do to be prepared and how to do it? Grab a pen and give me a call. If you have have not idea on how to start a website or where to look for marketing help. I can give you a detailed list of steps to follow. Never managed engineers or software developers and want to know how to not screw it up? I can give you detailed experiences of where I did go wrong and how we changed it. Need a list of essential tools every startup should use or have? I will show you everything you need to get going. All of the resources and advice I will give are from first hand experiences not from research I have done or things I have heard from others. Most of my experiences began after struggling through tons of advise and opinions from people who did not know enough about actually running a start-up.
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Colin Hurd
Ames, IA
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Founded and exited 2 successful Ag companies within 6 years. Completed licence deal with a $100 Mil plus agriculture equipment company. Sold second company to large publicly traded company. Was awarded Forbes 30 under 30 2019. Currently I serve on numerous startup boards and co direct a seed fund. Tons of experience with patents, contract negotiations, royalty deals, ag equipment sales and marketing, online sales and distribution, manufacturing and supplier management. Have in depth knowledge and experience with large agriculture vehicle automation, Cloud computing, applied CNN machine vision, ag systems technology, GIS, GPS/RTK, IoT, telematics, mesh networking, advanced path planning and UAV's. Can provide general expertise regarding all things start-up. including, Seed Funding, business plans, pitch competitions, business model canvasing, HR, recruiting, culture, Legal set-up, finance, grants, and presenting.
Reviews (2)
Wonderful insight from Colin – was very patient, transparent and open, too. Thank you very much for sharing your mind, Colin... it served as a very valuable starting point on my project!
Respectfully,
Greg
The value I received for the time I spent with Colin far outweighed the price. Colin is a personable and articulate expert in AgTech. He understands the technologies, the business models and the industry dynamics. I highly recommend him.
Source: Clarity Lee Dawson Jul 14, 2017the startups.com platform
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