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Startup Children – How To Parent An Entrepreneur (Part II) - Sales Advice From Dr. Seuss

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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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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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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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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. Industry veterans know each other and freely share information about up-and-coming products, companies and people.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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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 We started building 4 products so that our end-to-end, supply-chain services would be complete (MVP? 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We closed a $16.5

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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6) You epitomize what I always tell my students – “A Humble Pride based on ethics and honesty is an entrepreneur’s strategic advantage, not a handicap.” These are 5-minute presentations on any topic related to RightScale and range from new technology demos to HR news and of course satire, making the entire audience howl.

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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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.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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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 ?