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6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

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The steps outlined below represent an ideal approach to raising capital from sophisticated investors. Send them a private message via Twitter or Quora that contains a compelling link relevant to their investment focus. Major League baseball pitchers spend far more time preparing to pitch than they actually do pitching.

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Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money

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Consider the situation in which the entrepreneur wants to accept a financially life-changing offer to sell her company which is vetoed by the investor because the price does not meet its minimal investment return criteria. Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.”

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Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money

InfoChachkie

Consider the situation in which the entrepreneur wants to accept a financially life-changing offer to sell her company which is vetoed by the investor because the price does not meet its minimal investment return criteria. Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.”

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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Most worryingly, many times it means that they have decided that they are not interested in your product (or investing in your company) so why bother having a debate / discussion with you. If your presentation requires an explanation of RSS vs. ATOM always best to say, “let me quickly state how RSS and ATOM are different.

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Commission Junction Co-Founder Lex Sisney Applies A Scientific Approach To Analyzing Your Business

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As Co-Founder and CEO of Commission Junction, Lex grew the company from two employees to become the de facto leader in the world of affiliate marketing, beating Google in the process. To this day, Commission Junction remains the dominant player despite Google's significant investment of time, money and resources.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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[asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo!

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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[asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.