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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

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Getting feedback on your pitch is a great idea; the more people evaluate your pitch before your investors see it, the more chances you have to catch any errors in reasoning, assumptions that are unclear to your audience, or things that just simply don’t make sense or flow well. See Also 5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch.

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8 Big Startup Myths That Hold Entrepreneurs Back From Success

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As Apple design lead Jonathan Ive said , “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. The importance of great design for your startup is not a myth.

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The Future of Web Startups

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In essense, let the market design the product. Instead of going to venture capitalists with a business plan and trying to convince them to fund it, you can get a product launched on a few tens of thousands of dollars of seed money from us or your uncle, and approach them with a working company instead of a plan for one.

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