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5 Keys To An Unbeatable Solution For Your New Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I’m not sure the world needs one more social media niche site, or another dating site, or yet another flavored drink alternative. I do recommend non-disclosures and patents, but more can be gained than lost by talking to outside experts. Successful people look for complementary co-founders, and hire a multi-faceted team.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords.

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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. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is as high as 50 percent. If you expect to seek investors, or you expect to have a sustainable competitive advantage against sleeping giants, you need to register all your patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets early. No intellectual property.

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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. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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10 Common Startup Flaws Leading To An Early Demise

Startup Professionals Musings

Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent. If you expect to seek investors, or you expect to have a sustainable competitive advantage against sleeping giants, you need to register all your patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets early. No intellectual property.

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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. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.