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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

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Will the average person care which language you wrote your program in? It could be the tough story of child loss that led you to develop an app that monitors sleeping infants, or how your childhood struggle with dyslexia spurred you to write a program that helps others with reading disabilities. As with No. Above all, avoid cliches.

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

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So we decided to study one program in particular: Harvard Business School. Let me be the first one to state that fundraising does not equal success – some of the best companies are bootstrapped for a long time and raise money only sparingly, if at all. There is no single right answer. Disclosure: I’m a second year MBA candidate at HBS.)