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How to Successfully Close Customers as a First Time Startup CEO

Lightspeed Venture Partners

I once witnessed a first-time entrepreneur pitch his very early stage startup, vision, and product with so much passion, precision, and authority to a well-recognized Global consumer goods brand that the CIO agreed to a POC (proof of concept) even before the entrepreneur finished his 30-minute pitch!

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[US] [Event] Launch Tennessee’s Southland Conference To Highlight South’s Top 50 Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

Launch Tennessee , a public-private partnership that supports the creation and development of high-growth companies in Tennessee, will draw attention on the top 50 early-stage companies in the South during Southland , its new conference highlighting the best in technology and Southern culture in Nashville on June 12-13.

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Transcript from my GrowVC interview

A Crowded Space

” Or really interesting projects, like Kentucky Fried Chicken actually came to us and said, “Hey, we want to break the world record for the largest chicken potpie, so we need to bake a 45 foot chicken potpie in Central Park. Go, run with that.” I mean, that’s specifically the area that we focus on.