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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Even if the entrepreneur feels that all is well, it’s well worth the effort to prepare with the following actions: Make sure the whole team is up-to-date on the plan.

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Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO

Steve Blank

But the bad news was that the company wasn’t keeping up with new technologies and new competitors who were moving faster. This is the concept of an ambidextrous organization (see this HBR article ).). A first place to start was with the innovation heroes/rebels. As he left, he looked at a bit more concerned than we started.

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Love Your Communication Results

Rembrandt Communications

To start, do you really know what’s going on with all of the communications at your business? Start Communication Tracking. Before you create any emails, website pages, videos, articles, blogs, etc., Maybe you want to send them to a specific article, newsletter sign-up form, sales representative, or something else?

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10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting

Startup Professionals Musings

If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. I outlined what investors expect to see in an old article “ Adding Slides Does Not Enhance Your Investor Pitch. Start with the problem and your solution. How much money do you need, and what percent of your company are you willing give up for that amount?

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The Hidden Power of Newsletters: Here’s Why You Should Start One

The Startup Magazine

In this article, let us look at three of them. You are starting to get some feedback about how helpful X aspect was or how they implemented the Y aspect and had a lot of success. However, while you can definitely continue to give out free value in your newsletters, you have to make up for it somewhere else. Email, Email, Email!

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10 Tips For A New Venture To Survive The Early Years

Startup Professionals Musings

According to my experience and this Motley Fool article from a few years ago, the challenge is very real, with around half of all new businesses no longer existing after five years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps.

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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Even if the entrepreneur feels that all is well, it’s well worth the effort to prepare with the following actions: Make sure the whole team is up-to-date on the plan.