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6 Keys To Funding Based On Your Marketplace Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. Remember the transportation transitions from horses to autos to trains to airplanes. Here are some of the key ones: Patent protection in place as a barrier to entry. Investors check connections.

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Investor Secrets For Smart Competitive Positioning

Startup Professionals Musings

Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. Remember the transportation transitions from horses to autos to trains to airplanes. Here are some of the key ones: Patent protection in place as a barrier to entry. Investors check connections.

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7 Indications Of Your Ability To Get Business Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. Registered patents and other intellectual property. There is no substitute for experience and trained skills in the business area you are attacking. Expert in your chosen domain. Marty Zwilling.

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7 Entrepreneur Traits That Let You Soar With Angels

Startup Professionals Musings

Finally I realized that Venture Capital and Angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. Registered patents and other intellectual property. There is no substitute for experience and trained skills in the business area you are attacking. Expert in your chosen domain.

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7 Personal Attributes That Attract Investor Attention

Startup Professionals Musings

Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. Registered patents and other intellectual property. There is no substitute for experience and trained skills in the business area you are attacking. Expert in your chosen domain. Marty Zwilling.

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Respect Competitors and Capitalize on Your Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I hear many entrepreneurs making negative comments about competitors or asserting they don’t have any competitors. They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution.

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10 Startup Mistakes You Can't Afford To Make Again

Startup Professionals Musings

As an active angel investor and startup advisor, I’ve seen many of the same stumbling blocks repeated all too many times. If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. You need patents and trademarks as a barrier to entry.

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