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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). Make s**t up!

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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. Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Lower level of community familiarity. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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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. Still a lot of marketers don’t believe it – or they’re at least skeptical about some of the technical aspects of testing and SEO. When Product Reviews Hurt Conversions. Of course, it’s not so simple.

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