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Entreprenurs Must Kick Down The Door When Opportunity Knocks

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He made it clear that this approach would allow the band to re-cut a few of their demos, which he would use to persuade the label to sign the band to a full-fledged recording contract. Attitude – During the early stages of their careers, emerging entrepreneurs must conform to their customers’ realities. Share and Enjoy.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.". to actionable user feedback, "Just went through the demo. Michael ended our conversation by noting that when an entrepreneur has the chance to tell their unfiltered story to a community of potential customers, they should, ".

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. If your presentation requires an explanation of RSS vs. ATOM always best to say, “let me quickly state how RSS and ATOM are different.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

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One way to do so is to ensure that when your customers share their experiences with your products and solutions, they do so with the passion and intensity of a soulful kiss. Twitter hashtag activity resulted in 4 demos. We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives.

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Startup Lessons From The Beatles’ Biggest Failure

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Lesson - Startups have limited opportunities to secure key customers, investors and employees. Thus, when a customer, investor or partner makes a request, their motives must be dispassionately explored. Wrong Expectations - According to John Lennon, "I think Decca expected us to be all polished, we were just doing a demo.".

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