InfoChachkie

JULY 4, 2011

He is so confident in his green eggs and ham product that he cannot help but smile. He asks the Prospect if he would like the product “here or there”, pointing to two spots on the ground while displaying his winning smile. Sam happily agrees, as he knows he will not have to continue selling, once the demo is completed.

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Sales Entrepreneur Startup Product 219

InfoChachkie

MAY 29, 2012

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.

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Startup Outsource Development RSS Entrepreneur 222

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I know you’re thinking that you have your head on straight but I promise you the experience of finding yourself in this maelstrom will leave any first time entrepreneur spinning. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5

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Startup Venture Capital Press Journal 310

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? What guidance can you give to anyone in a financially safe career who longs for the exciting life of an entrepreneur? We always focused on making the story bigger.”. In the end the skeptics get convinced because they see others reap the benefits.”.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

The bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. Stories have starts, middles and ends. Rahul and Co.

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The presenter comes out of the meeting proud at having gotten through all 30 slides (and maybe even a demo) with a bunch of smiling faces and nodding heads and no discussion. Example: VC , “Do you really think that customers will pay $5,000 / month for your product when there are free versions of X,Y,Z on the market ?

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Venture Capital Sales Slides Startup 275