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Adding Slides Does Not Enhance Your Investor Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Opportunity sizing. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.

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Interview with Mike Neshat, RFaxis

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It's the same part that came out as our first engineering sample. The part tested so well, we are taking that engineering sample to production without any enhancements to our die. So there's no legal issues for us, and if they don't infringe on our patents, there's no worry for them. I've been doing this for a long time.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong.

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Limit an Investor Pitch to 10 Pages and 10 Minutes

Startup Professionals Musings

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Opportunity sizing. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.

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Don’t Look For Investors for All the Wrong Reasons

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong.

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Ten Slides Make a Killer Investor Presentation

Startup Professionals Musings

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Opportunity sizing. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.

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Most Entrepreneurs Should Never Bring On Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong.