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5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch

Up and Running

This communicates to investors that you don’t care about their time, you’re not prepared, you won’t be easy to work with if they decided to fund you, and that you have a huge ego. Present a “hockey-stick” financial growth model without sharing your numbers behind your numbers (a.k.a. your financial assumptions).

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. As a result, unfounded hockey-stick graphs and unicorn promises give way to financial fluency, realistic expectations, frank conversations about what a business can credibly achieve, and transparency. . Lower level of community familiarity.

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The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth)

ConversionXL

You get more traffic, more conversions, more money – in an endless hockey stick shaped cycle. Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”. But we still need to attribute part of it to social (Facebook communities)”. Of course, it’s not so simple.

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