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9 Things That Take a Pitch From Good to Great

Up and Running

Instead, use real names and real customer challenges. Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones , key hires, and so on.

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9 Things That Take a Pitch From Good To Great

Up and Running

Instead, use real names and real customer challenges. Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones, key hires, etc. 5% monthly churn rate.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

Churn Rate: In my days at DirecTV one of the metrics that the company was obsessed with atleast then and rightly so, was Churn Rate. And remember that history is littered with companies that were growing just fine but they still died a painful death because of Churn Rate. Be willing to work hard.