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Why Confidence is So Important in Fund Raising

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Note: If you enjoy my posts please subscribe to my newsletter by adding your email below. She had emailed with a partner at a big VC fund and he had passed the request to a junior associate. Of course you have to be careful with this. If you’ve enjoyed or learned please email to a friend or share through social.

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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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Hi, and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. I have started to publish a version of the newsletter on TechCrunch. For the whole newsletter, which comes out every weekend, you can subscribe by heading over here , and clicking “The Station.”

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How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks

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Of course, unlike cars there is no direct comparison across each startup so these are just some general guidelines to try and even the information field. How you talk about valuation will of course depend on how well your business is performing and how much demand you have from other investors. some might even want slightly more.

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3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

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They generated an enormous amount of inbound leads through PR, email blasts and heavy efforts with analysts such as Gartner Group, IDC, Aberdeen Group, etc. If you’re not ready to buy then you go into an email database. Here they surround you with sales professionals, product people and, of course, lots of referenceable customers!

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

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It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. If — and it’s a big if of course — they can do that on the cheap, then why should an LP care at all? If I can ever be of assistance, hit reply, or send an email to danny@techcrunch.com. Burn the management fee in a fireplace if it makes the deals happen.

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Do Less. More.

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There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. We always look like it’s only fun in our Instagram photos, don’t we?

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . Direct Response Email and Newsletters – Although rightfully vilified due to the irresponsible actions of Spammers, targeted, opt-in email lists can be lucrative sources of customers. Such actions include sales, trials, leads, downloads, etc.

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