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10 Quotes You Should Never Use Around A Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc.

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From Click to Booth: Crafting Immersive Experiences with Interactive Tech for Trade Shows

The Startup Magazine

This can be done by exploring a virtual product demo, playing an interactive game, or interacting with digital content in real time. How Much Does It Cost to Implement Interactive Technology at a Trade Show? The cost of implementing interactive technology can vary widely depending on the tools and techniques used.

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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals

Steve Blank

We spent weeks integrating the sample data they gave us to build a functional prototype, and then after our demo they just ghosted us. They were ecstatic about the time the product could save them and started pulling others into our demos. He was building a complex robotic system for factories. “We I still don’t know what happened!”

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10 Strategies For Attracting Investors That Will Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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Flashpoint New York Demo Day, Friday, June 14

David Teten

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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