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10 Quotes You Should Never Use Around A Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an angel investor. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long.

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10 Strategies For Attracting Investors That Will Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an angel investor. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

The culmination of this bootcamp is a “demo day” where all startups in the cohort have a few minutes to pitch their companies to venture capitalists and angel investors. (In Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors.

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10 Entrepreneur Approaches That Turn Off Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an Angel investor. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long.

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10 Investor Approaches To Avoid When You Need Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an angel investor. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Tuesday, May 9: VentureCrush ATX (FREE) VentureCrush is a series of unique events and networks created by the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler to bring together carefully selected groups of tech industry founders and senior executives, along with VC, growth equity, private equity and angel investors. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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5 Strategies From The Military For Tackling Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The first rule is to separate your advisors from your investors. Perhaps a close personal friend can be both (the earliest stage and first tier investors should be “friends and family”). But for angel investors and venture capital investors, just remember that investors are not on your team (yet).