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10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors like ideas based on market research from outside experts, like Gartner Research , proclaiming a billion dollar opportunity with a double digit growth rate. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors. It’s hard to build and scale a business on free high-support products.

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Pull Investors to Your Business Plan With a Summary

Startup Professionals Musings

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation).

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10 Keys To Enabling Your Startup For Unicorn Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors like ideas based on market research from outside experts, like Gartner Research , proclaiming a billion dollar opportunity with a double digit growth rate. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors. It’s hard to build and scale a business on free high-support products.

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Eight Ways To Get Past The Fear Of “No”  And Start Risking Rejection

YoungUpstarts

The problem is many entrepreneurs aren’t willing to take that risk. One of the main reasons why hopeful business owners don’t succeed is not because they don’t have a worthy product or a well-thought-out business plan, but because they’re afraid of rejection. Do you kick your sales pitch up a notch to your hard sell?

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10 Tips For Building The Most Scalable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors like ideas based on market research from outside experts, like Gartner Research , proclaiming a billion dollar opportunity with a double digit growth rate. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors. It’s hard to build and scale a business on free high-support products. Marty Zwilling.

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Investors Love To Fund Solutions That Are Scalable

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors like ideas based on market research from outside experts, like Gartner Research , proclaiming a billion dollar opportunity with a double digit growth rate. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors. It’s hard to build and scale a business on free high-support products.

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10 Actions To Make Sure Your New Business Will Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors like ideas based on market research from outside experts, like Gartner Research , proclaiming a billion dollar opportunity with a double digit growth rate. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors. It’s hard to build and scale a business on free high-support products. Marty Zwilling.