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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction to investors, as well as your team: Document your business plan. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We’re always hiring great people. I think these personal traits are what reunited us; even more so than our vision for RingRevenue.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. Personally, I think the best products are designed, architected and built all at the same time. (As Ive hired some of my best people straight out of college, taxi cab drivers and have even stolen coffee makers from Starbucks.