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[Review] Loveworks

YoungUpstarts

“ Loveworks ” builds on that premise, and looks at how various marketing concepts – some of which, like virality, have become the epitome of hype – are exemplified through these marketing examples as executed by Saatchi & Saatchi across the world in various categories for different clients.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. Reid Hoffman. we had no revenue.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). For young entrepreneurs, especially non-technical founders like myself, it feels like our big idea is all we have, and we want to guard it like a defenseless baby. Assuming Virality. "A

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

51:36) Scientific background on niclosamide, what we know about how it works to stop viral replication. (52:48) And then, when COVID happened, we felt an obligation to see if our technology had any application there and went with it once we saw there was promise. 2:16) Nadja Mannowetz on her background. (2:38) I mean, I don't know.