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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. In my view, understanding due diligence can only improve information flow, and leads to a better long-term partnership with your investor. In my view, understanding due diligence can only improve information flow, and leads to a better long-term partnership with your investor.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. In my view, understanding due diligence can only improve information flow, and leads to a better long-term partnership with your investor. In my view, understanding due diligence can only improve information flow, and leads to a better long-term partnership with your investor.

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How To Prevent Gaps in An Innovative Startup Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. There are other chasms out there just as deadly as the technology one, such as the ones below: Market requirements chasm. Product development chasm. Marketing and sales chasm.

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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

The most likely outcome if you manage to interest the senior exec (for the sake of this post let me call her the CEO) is that she will refer you down the organization to somebody who would be involved in the decision. We will have to build (or buy) technology in this area.” The benefits of this are clear: 1.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

InfoChachkie

The short version of my review is: “Enchanting? It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. For instance, Guy refers to an entrepreneur’s venture as their “cause.” Unfortunately, most business books do not offer entrepreneurs an adequate payoff. No doubt, he did.

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The Perfect Pithy And Productive Investor Pitch

InfoChachkie

In The Art of One-line Pitching: A Study of AngelList , Chris Eleftheriadis reviewed 1,700AngelList postings and identified the nine most common categories of positioning pitches (Chris'' list is edited here for brevity): 1. Google x Facebook x Amazon) + (Universal Reviews). AngelList Differentiation. But better. Explanatory. "A

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How to Acquire Customers by Marketing “Heroes”

Both Sides of the Table

It influenced a generation of tech marketers. The book popularized the technology adoption lifecycle curve that originally came out of Iowa State University shown below. So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products.

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