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10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting

Startup Professionals Musings

Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation. Equally bad is a full tutorial on your new disruptive technology. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?”

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Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Tech entrepreneurs' consternation with MBAs does not rise to the level of loathing. Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. Look For MBA Outliers.

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10 Keys To Limiting Your Startup Story To Ten Minutes

Startup Professionals Musings

Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation. Equally bad is a full tutorial on your new disruptive technology. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?”

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

socalTECH

Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. Where was the technology for this developed?

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in the Wall Street Journal. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! eBay – Derived from Founder Pierre Omidyar’s consulting company, Echo Bay Technology Group. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.”

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

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.