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How To Give A Horrendous Investor Pitch

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You are an entrepreneur – go for it. If you are forced to display financial data, ensure that the slides are unintelligible. An effective method to incite Death By PowerPoint is to deploy an extraordinary number of slides. A minimum of 20 to 30 slides per minute is a reasonable rule of thumb. Of course not.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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I was an entrepreneur. My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation. Since there are 10-12 slides this gave me my first few weeks. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Some search.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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This involves a person who leads a PowerPoint presentation in which the presenter feels more comfortable racing through pre-practiced slides and rattling off charts & bullet points than having a discussion. The VC might have tried a few times to prompt a discussion and you didn’t take the queue but in stead reverted back to slides.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 cheap accessible digital hardware]. Enter Facebook.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?

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