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5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch

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Present a β€œhockey-stick” financial growth model without sharing your numbers behind your numbers (a.k.a. If I had a nickel for every pitch I saw where the financial projections grow in the shape of a hockey stick, I could have funded my last startup! Are you pitching “hockey-stick” financial growth?

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

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. . Flexible VC offers you this. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs.

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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.”. Therefore, the more you test and improve your site, the higher it should appear in the rankings. Of course, it’s not so simple.

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What the Best Growth Teams Get Right

ConversionXL

Hockey-stick growth requires being ahead of, not in line with, conventional wisdom: The most impactful ideas won’t be found in β€œbest practices.” With the coronavirus outbreak,” says Fry, β€œthe match rates for reverse IP lookup are declining. Then, we can spend time pushing our thinking toward bold new ideas. The solution?

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, β€œHow is your IP protected?”