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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following. There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me.

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8 Ways An Investor Pitch Differs From A Product Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. In reality, they need a separate pitch about the business, carrying over only a slide or two about the solution. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

It’s the nature of most entrepreneurs, honestly. They can help you with pricing. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up? What I used to do is pencil out my plans for the board deck and strategy topics and my CFO would then pull together the slides and analysis. The full financial details and metrics were in the deck.

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Should Your Startup Give Performance-Based Warrants?

Both Sides of the Table

As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. Have minimums but a sliding scale. Subjective warrants – I also see warrants given out without hard metrics.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Spencer Price: That's a fair question. Spencer Price: It's a bit of a circuitous route. What is Halla?

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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

Tech Zulu Event

After the event, we caught up, Parker Thompson , Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) charged with leading Batch 8. In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. The crowd of investors were very supportive, with lots of laughs and cheers.

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Startup Fundraising 101: Getting Ready To Raise A Round

Tech Zulu Event

These are usually the first sources entrepreneurs tap. Be careful how you price this. Examples of milestones: traction as measured by user numbers and user engagement; financial metrics such as cash flow and revenue. Use before and after slides to hit home with investors. Angels (invest their own money) and super angels.

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