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8 Tactics To Highlight Your Startup For Early Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

These are the only people likely to believe in newbies, with only minimal product evidence or business experience. This is confirmation that the right people are always more important than the right product. Friends and family are quick to differentiate between a passionate hobby and a sincere effort to change the world.

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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

Think of it as an elevator pitch for recruiting. As with sales, these core reasons need to be compelling to candidates, while being as unique to you (competitive differentiation) as possible. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1.

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8 Keys To A Major Source Of Funding For New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

These are the only people likely to believe in newbies, with only minimal product evidence or business experience. This is confirmation that the right people are always more important than the right product. Friends and family are quick to differentiate between a passionate hobby and a sincere effort to change the world.

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How to Build a Messaging Strategy that Grabs Your Customer’s Attention

ConversionXL

Gumroad , a software that allows content creators to easily sell digital products, gets straight to the point with their unique selling proposition (USP) : They state exactly who their target audience is: creators. Figure out how your product uniquely fits into the market and drive that message home. The elevator pitch.

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Great Startups Can Hook an Investor in 60 Seconds

Startup Professionals Musings

An "elevator pitch" is a concise, well-practiced description of your startup and your plan, delivered with conviction and enthusiasm, that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.

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8 Smart Tips To Soliciting Friends And Family Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

To me, this is a logical step function, and confirmation that the right founders are always more important than the right product. Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to respectfully ask for funding, after nurturing relationships, and practicing their elevator pitch.

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Great Startups Can Hook an Investor in 60 Seconds

Gust

An “ elevator pitch ” is a concise, well-practiced description of your startup and your plan, delivered with conviction and enthusiasm, that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.