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

Gust

We have spent a great deal of effort to pull together some of the smartest experts in the money-raising field, and the blog is carefully curated to be useful specifically to entrepreneurs seeking funding. Choose one from our large library of thematic and designer backgrounds or, even better, upload your own.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. Would we signs of success early?

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114 Entrepreneurs On 1 Train For 8 Hours Pitching Ideas

ReadWriteStart

Think an elevator pitch is hard ? The destination was Dealmaker Media's GROW 2012 conference , a summit of startup rock stars and wannabe-rock stars raring to pitch, invest and innovate their hearts out in Vancouver. Try selling your vision with a beer in each hand, balancing in the aisle of a train barreling north at 80 mph.

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114 Entrepreneurs On 1 Train For 8 Hours Pitching Ideas

ReadWriteStart

Think an elevator pitch is hard ? The destination was Dealmaker Media's GROW 2012 conference , a summit of startup rock stars and wannabe-rock stars raring to pitch, invest and innovate their hearts out in Vancouver. Try selling your vision with a beer in each hand, balancing in the aisle of a train barreling north at 80 mph.

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114 Entrepreneurs On 1 Train For 8 Hours Pitching Ideas

ReadWriteStart

Think an elevator pitch is hard ? The final headcount was a raucous, adventuresome 100+ founders, investors, entrepreneurs, bloggers, developers and designers. Try selling your vision with a beer in each hand, balancing in the aisle of a train barreling north at 80 mph.

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How we redesigned our Product in 5 months at Techstars.

Austin Startup

We knew we would solve the problem faster by having access to the Techstars network and accelerator program (5000+ founders, mentors and investors worldwide) Learn how to scale our business and automate sales and csm by exporting our SaaS in a foreign and huge market: the US. I met with around 110 mentors total, in less than 3 weeks.

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Business Startup Tools: A Curated List of Our Favorite Tools and Resources to Build Your Company

Up and Running

Elevator pitches and pitch decks. In this case, it’s the pitch feature that allows you to get all of your most important points down in one place, either as a one-page format or as a pitch deck that you can export to Powerpoint if you need a slide deck for a presentation. Design tools. Outsourcing work.