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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

The culmination of this bootcamp is a “demo day” where all startups in the cohort have a few minutes to pitch their companies to venture capitalists and angel investors. (In Their financial models are based on membership fees that grant access to a shared coworking space, resources, and access to other founders and operational expertise.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

But in an account-based marketing thing, you might even want to throw up some things like Demandbase on the high end to LeadLander on the low end that do help you resolve IP addresses into companies, so you know which companies hit your website. They converted like 60% of demos into customers once the demo was activated.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

However, accelerator Demo Days are a combination of graduation ceremony and pitch contest, with the uncomfortable feel of a swimsuit competition. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor attending Demo Day to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Diagnostics.

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Meet the 18 startups rocking Seedcamp Week

The Next Web

The event will culminate in Demo Day, which is tomorrow, and will see Seedcamp showcase its portfolio startups to a wide variety of professional investors and press. Pult ( Pult.io ). Qminder ( QminderApp.com ). Qminder aims to solve the problem of waiting lines with a queue-management system based on smartphones and tablets.

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To NDA or not to NDA?

Growthink Blog

Please seek professional advice to ensure that your contracts of employment, consulting, operating agreement, articles of incorporation, etc. No NDA for public pitch or demo competition Trade secrets are no longer secret if revealed to the public. Free “ID your IP” Code GROWT13 ($59 value).

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6 critical tips for launching a startup while holding a day job | VentureBeat

venturebeat.com

I know, you really really want to ignore me and operate in secret. As for the employer, I would say don't compete with your employer and don't come close to using any IP of theirs. You could make a whole site dedicated to people holding down a day job but also seeking to make their own IP or buisness come into profit.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). Action : If you’re building a web site: Small portion of your site should be operational on the web. Any IP you need to license?

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