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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Spencer Price: That's a fair question. Spencer Price: It's a bit of a circuitous route. What is Halla?

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8 Ways An Investor Pitch Differs From A Product Pitch

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When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. In reality, they need a separate pitch about the business, carrying over only a slide or two about the solution. Remember, investors are buying into the business, not the product.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

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I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. They can help you with pricing. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up?

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Should Your Startup Give Performance-Based Warrants?

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BigCo calls you to review your product and decides they want to use you. A “warrant&# is a right, but not an obligation for a company to buy stock in your company at a future date and at a pre-agreed price. Let’s say you give a warrant to a channel partner to sell your product. Have minimums but a sliding scale.

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How to Prepare for a Board Meeting to Make Sure you Crush It

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If you buy into the argument that a strong board can actually help you then this post will lay out how to help you have more productive meetings by preparing properly in advance. The deck itself was produced by a committee of functional team lead who were asked to do 5–7 slides each for an update. There are too many pages.

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Startup Fundraising 101: Getting Ready To Raise A Round

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And when it comes to timing, wait until you’ve come up with a working prototype and developed your product before you seek external funding. This can be a great way to test your product and get customer feedback. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. Be careful how you price this.

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