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7 Essential Steps From A Lone Entrepreneur To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Work on your elevator pitch.

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

Practice every step, including the elevator pitch to get the first meeting. Investment firms specialize by business sectors, and each partner within the firm has a specialty. Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Refine your elevator pitch. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic.

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5 Tips On Creating A Killer Digital Marketing Plan For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Think of this as your elevator pitch but instead of a short pitch to give someone in an elevator, it’s a short pitch to stop them from clicking on the next link. It also applies to potential partners. The more you help your partners, the more they’re likely to do for you in return.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. Each team gave each professor a three-minute elevator pitch for their idea, and we let them know if it was good enough for the class. to get hard-earned information.

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7 Action Items For Introverts Starting New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Work on your elevator pitch.

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How to Beat Inequity in Investment

Austin Startup

While being able to serve as a source to expand your network, mentors can also help entrepreneurs to recognize new opportunities for new ventures. Partner up. POC professionals have reported needing assistance with networking skills the most. Meetup.com is a great resource for those looking to develop their networking skills.