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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

" In Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Startup Founder , I mentioned that before you build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need to be really clear on your purpose. Yes, the investor may literally have said to you: "That is something I'd seriously think about investing in when you have your product built."

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

InfoChachkie

As noted in What’s Real About Shark Tank , the show can give consumer product companies a significant marketing and revenue boost, as it did for one of my former students, Jeff Overall, Founder of PolarPro. A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format.