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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. What should not be in your deck? Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?—?it’s

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20 Best Free and Paid Tools for Startups in 2023

Tech.Co

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. If you're keeping a hawkish eye on your outgoings, here are some great startup tools that you won't need to spend a cent on. From its 4.3-inch

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

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Building direct customer relationships with viewers (who want to tune into your channels). Your goal at Walmart ought to be to build customer awareness and ultimately persuade a sub-segment of the Walmart shopper to come buy your candy bars at specialty shops or at your companies website directly, where you’ll make much better margin.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create. This team is talented.

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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

socalTECH

Sometimes what I say, is if brand is your moat, and you're a direct-to-consumer company, versus where you really have some technology, and you have some IP, that's the side of the spectrum we play on. I think the vision and the selling, for investors, for employees, and for customers, is really a core skill.

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Interview with Thomas Russell, ETC Solar, Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

socalTECH

We expect our products to be ready in mid-2020, and are targeting the flat solar cell market. That also is a strength for us, because it's very hard to reverse engineer, and you have a very strong IP portfolio. Thomas Russell: We're an early stage company, and we have R&D tools and R&D products currently available.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Because many great entrepreneurs work with lawyers in registering their companies they have their ear to the pavement on the earliest of company formations.

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