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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. After the sales meetings I would ask the exec afterward, “how do you think it went?&# We used to do this in our sales slides.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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I also found out they only cared about four applications. After repositioning the company as a developer of high-end, premium products, Steve was excited to execute a marketing campaign. However, he stopped in his tracks when he learned that the engineers had only created a single product, rather than a family of graphics cards.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". an email) to about 35 people. From 35 To 500 Readers.

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. I promise I will never tweet about lousy music or that killer burrito I just ate. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Deal Hair: Is Your Startup More Like Russell Brand Or Bruce Willis?

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Sales Guy who can package and promote the opportunity, but who has minimal product development capabilities. In the instance of the Tech Guy, the VC might be concerned that he will focus too much on developing cool product features and potentially ignore non-product issues. Share and Enjoy.