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8 Errors To Avoid In Your First Minute With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, “I have patented a new tire that will double the wear mileage at half the cost.” Describe technology and features, not competitiveness. For customers, a sample, demo device, or at least a brochure will solidify the message and your readiness to deliver. Too much technology and too many features can scare off both.

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Adding Slides Does Not Enhance Your Investor Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Competition and sustainable advantage. List and position your competition, or alternatives available to the customer. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. Opportunity sizing. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy.

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Interview with Mike Neshat, RFaxis

socalTECH

It's the same part that came out as our first engineering sample. The part tested so well, we are taking that engineering sample to production without any enhancements to our die. There is lots of competition from the big companies, legal threats in the industry for chip startups to navigate today, how are you handling that?

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Limit an Investor Pitch to 10 Pages and 10 Minutes

Startup Professionals Musings

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Competition and sustainable advantage. List and position your competition, or alternatives available to the customer. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. Opportunity sizing. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy.

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Ten Slides Make a Killer Investor Presentation

Startup Professionals Musings

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Competition and sustainable advantage. List and position your competition, or alternatives available to the customer. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. Opportunity sizing. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy.

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8 Portfolio Assets Are Key To Your Startup Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Copyrights.

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Contur Sorts Your Email From Clutter To Save You Hours | Interview With The Founders

Tech Zulu Event

Prior to joining Contur, he founded a successful business, and was a finalist at a South by Southwest Startup competition. Once we have enough samples, and our organizer is fairly good in organizing everyone’s email, then we’ll announce our business plan. We’re going to have pending patents for our technology. Not necessarily.

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