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13 Red Flags To Avoid In Your Investor Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration. Smart entrepreneurs highlight their own positives in competitive positioning, rather than competitor negatives. I highly recommend that you screen your business plan and your executive presentation carefully for variations on any of these themes, and remove them.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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