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5 Secrets That Make Jeff Bezos The Leader Of The Pack

Startup Professionals Musings

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of $200 billion dollars. It allows investors to come into alignment with customers. Focus relentlessly and passionately on the customer.

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Building Products for Mass Adoption

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I covered this a bit in my post about the market definition slide in fund raising. I’m not saying that you need a 30-tab Excel spreadsheet modeling out 5 year’s of detailed profit & loss accounts with gross and net margins that would be realistic for year 5. Build features that will delight your customers.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. I cranked out 20+ slides based on this pre-existing metaphor of media in my head. I have a high fear of failure that acts as my safety net. So I thought I would.

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5 Tips For New Entrepreneurs Needing Investor Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

In a two-minute video clip, you can introduce yourself, show your passion and the engaging personality you need to win over customers, partners, and employees. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. A perfect size is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes.

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5 Ways To Engage The Right People In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Whether you are looking for partners, investors, or future customers, you need to show a level of professionalism and leadership very early that will draw people to your idea. Be sure to net out the opportunity and the solution in the first thirty seconds. Make it light, but factual. Think of it as an infomercial.

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8 Sure Signs Of Self-Doubt In Starting Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

This leads to a constant search for safety nets, backup plans, and alternatives, rather than just getting to work, doing the job, and enjoying more and more learning, as well as confidence. Don’t let yourself slide in making future commitments because these are the ones that can make you grow to the next level.

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

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I put up this slide as part of my discussion. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. What is your cash balance?