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Hire for your core. Partner for the rest.

Berkonomics

By definition, your core is your intellectual property foundation, the thing that makes your business most valuable to customers, investors and perhaps someday to potential buyers of the business. Patents, branding, marketing and more.

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Reduce five risks: Increase your valuation

Berkonomics

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Email readers, continue here…] A great idea often fails from the inexperience or inability of management to bring the idea to market.

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Hire for your core. Partner for the rest.

Berkonomics

By definition, your core is your intellectual property foundation, the thing that makes your business most valuable to customers, investors and perhaps someday to potential buyers. Email readers, continue here.] Sometimes we protect our core with effective branding and marketing.

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7 Indications Of Your Ability To Get Business Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation. Message delivery must be customized for each investor. It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors.

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Can you overcome five risks and create wealth?

Berkonomics

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Email readers, continue here…] Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service? And fifth: Competitive risk. .

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7 Personal Attributes That Attract Investor Attention

Startup Professionals Musings

Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation. Message delivery must be customized for each investor. It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors.

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Address the five risks to increase your valuation.

Berkonomics

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Email readers, continue here.] Third: Management risk. And fifth: Competitive risk. Second: Market risk.