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How important is a video pitch to investors for an early stage start-up?

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If you are going around personally to talk to potential high net worth investor to whom you have an introduction, you probably don’t need a video. On the other hand, if your initial contact with a potential investor is online, then (at least in the US, although I assume elsewhere as well) a video can be very helpful.

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7 Tips On Written Communications To Startup Investors

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Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

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Browse through the many hundreds of video answers to startup questions that we’ve filmed from the world’s leading VCs and angels. Luminaries contributing to the Gust video library include Dave McClure , David Hornik , Esther Dyson , Howard L Morgan , Josh Kopelman , Mark Suster and many others.

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Set Your Online Reputation Before Someone Else Does

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Sites like Pinterest , Instagram , and YouTube allow users to create and share photos and videos, and create short profiles. Simply engaging in forum discussions and exchanging comments establishes positive content. Other user-created content sites.

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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Hastings in the era of social media : On July 3, 2012, he posted to his Facebook page , which had more than 200,000 subscribers, the fact that Netflix had streamed a billion hours of video in the preceding month.

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Investors Don’t Know What They Want

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I strongly recommend a quick tour of the ‘ what investors want ‘ collection of videos on this site. You’ll find 22 very short videos taken from interviews of some very thoughtful, successful, and influential investors. It’s a bit like an angel investor role call.

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

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Don’t start podcasting, blogging, tweeting, “friending” on Facebook, and posting YouTube videos until you know what your messages are, who will manage them, who your audience is, and how they and you are going to benefit from the content and relationship. Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.