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When should you go for equity financing?

Berkonomics

You will have to hone your story well, down to fifteen minutes and perhaps fifteen slides in your presentation. There is a rather new term for those large, individual investors who are usually former entrepreneurs made rich through sale of their previous ventures. Individual super angel investors. And the one thing in common?

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. This person was educated at the best US schools and had worked for a top-tier strategy consulting firm – one of the big 3.

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Interview with Eugene Cho, Echo Laboratories

socalTECH

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. My background is I was a sales rep in this industry for fourteen years, with Nikon. I think when you are talking about sales numbers, scientific instrument or not, it's no longer we have Widget A or Widget B, it's a much more convincing presentation.

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Interview with Eugene Cho, Echo

socalTECH

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. My background is I was a sales rep in this industry for fourteen years, with Nikon. I think when you are talking about sales numbers, scientific instrument or not, it's no longer we have Widget A or Widget B, it's a much more convincing presentation.

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Startups Should Avoid Dropping Trou

InfoChachkie

As noted in RIP RFPs , entrepreneurs should generally avoid RFPs because they cannot afford to expend the time and resources required to participate in such regimented and lengthy sales processes. Thus, you may have to deferentially educate him as you assuage his objections. No one can tell your story better than you.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Competitor: Slide.

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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

Both Sides of the Table

But it’s kind of hard to say “don’t plant near the big trees” when you just completed a big sale to Microsoft building an app that they should have created and dominated. As per my video, think about the data in the following slide. Where I Might Expand the Argument. “ And my fear?