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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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Well if the “why buy anything” is testing whether you’re even compatible with a VC, the “why buy me” has got to be extreme differentiation. But if you’re looking for something differentiated in your portfolio I think we’d be a great fit. why buy me? why buy now? VCs see companies all the time.

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Details of Upfront Ventures New $400 Million Fund

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We’ve had billion dollar exists in Chicago, Baltimore, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles an well as enormous winners also in New York and Las Vegas. We believe this isn’t just a market statement — it is where we will drive huge and differentiated returns. Boston, Finland and Paris).

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. Take a few more chances in the sales process by developing sales & marketing materials that are more differentiated. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales.

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Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder

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The reason for the differentiation is that we hypothesized those who were already working full-time on their own idea would be much harder to "poach" away. Be able to talk about your competitors products and differentiate your product. I am the technical cofounder of WebMechanix, a Baltimore-based Search Engine Optimization company.