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5 Ways To Engage The Right People In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Most people will be engaged by a single-page double-sided glossy executive summary, and offer support or the right people to move forward. Be sure to net out the opportunity and the solution in the first thirty seconds. You really need at least a prototype product or customer to make the video come alive.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea. Hope you all enjoy.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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Xconomy Q&A: Vuforia, Pokémon Go, and Augmented Reality

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Last week, the mobile app market research firm Sensor Tower estimated that Pokémon Go has generated over $200 million in worldwide net revenue for its creators since July 6, when the free mobile game was launched. JW: Now that we’re at PTC, the mission … Next Page » Reprints | Share: But now there is an exceptional example.

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Startups Need the Eight P’s for Successful Funding

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The result is that the Main Street Venture Fund consistently has more money available than good opportunities for investment. After considering about 200 investment opportunities over the past two years, we have established a decision making process to identify trophy entrepreneurs and startups. Participation.

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Track the Ten Elements of Value for Your Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. It’s how we package our company story and drive our press coverage. Almost all business success relies on creativity.

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