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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. In the open-ended portion of the poll, one person indicated, "If they have $1 million in sales and have shown that people are willing to buy this thing without it even existing."

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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