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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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What price? Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I think the issue I have always had with investment bank pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. What stage?

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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What price? Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I think my mentality to banker pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. What kind of deals should I be doing?

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

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This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Nor do they exist in the investors of early-stage companies.

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sales vs marketing

AeA Los Angeles Council

Having been both a marketing & sales executive, I have seen first-hand how silos between these two departments can exist while products (or the sale of services) still "succeed" despite the rivalry. But there's a high price to pay when you consider that it affects the well-being of your company culture. Directors of Marketing.

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Be Careful About Being a Meddling Startup CEO

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In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. So he would allocate say – 20% to sales, 15% to marketing, 20% to eng priorities, 10% to customer support, 10% to ops, 20% to ‘platinum customers’ and maybe 5% directly to me as the CEO. ” PR.

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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn

InfoChachkie

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Determining the perfect moment to enter the startup market, whether by creating a company or joining an ongoing venture, is akin to timing the financial markets. People are free or cheap because of the recession. Great Campfire Stories.

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Nine Keys To A Winning Startup Channel Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassmer Once you have succeeded in developing a solution and obtained initial funding, the next challenge is to penetrate the relevant domestic and international markets. For many markets these days, the channel owns the market. For that, you need to implement a winning distribution channel strategy.

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