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10 Quotes You Should Never Use Around A Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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10 Strategies For Attracting Investors That Will Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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10 Marketing Strategies To Drive Exponential Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Elon Musk and Tesla made their battery patents available to anyone, to clear the path for market infrastructure growth and compatibility, which of course benefits Tesla. Be sure to involve real people and real customers, such as GoPro cameras , with user generated demos and amazing aspirational videos.

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10 Ways To Make A BAD First Impression On Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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10 Entrepreneur Approaches That Turn Off Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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10 Investor Approaches To Avoid When You Need Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. So true, so true, and that's the perspective you must adopt to become adroit in social media." had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership.

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