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Because I was late, I wasn’t able to check that my slides would be presented in the format I had hoped—and sure enough, the fonts looked wonky and the slide formatting resulted in text running off some of the pages. Tell them you haven’t spoken with any customers yet because your product is still in development.

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Well, maybe that’s an over-exaggeration, but if you’re building a brochure website with less than 20 pages and expect less than 50 visitors at any time, shared hosting is for you. You can easily find out your page speed after you’ve hosted your website, but it would be too late. Step #3: Check Hosting Server Speed.

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Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Now I don’t mean the hundred page business plan that we used to write back in the day. One is that you’ve written a business plan. Are you saving lives?

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How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? Due diligence is the most important part of the process because it dictates whether you should move forward with the acquisition, and at what price. As such, due diligence consumed the majority of the two-month negotiation period between myself and the seller.

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During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Never Get Even, Get Ahead With a set of orders from brand name customers, we had growing confidence that we had achieved product/market fit. Are These Your Slides?

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www.vccafe.com

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Google DevRel created a page of Google resources for startups – from the site’s description: “This site contains a selection of tools you will find useful when building, measuring, and enhancing your apps. Facebook Fan Pages. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away. Google Page Speed.

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