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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

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Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Download Investor Update Email Template. Investor Update Email Template and How & When to Use It.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

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*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. As a seed-stage company, it is understandable to have a nascent (or non-existent) product and a barebone team relative to the great ambition of the company. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

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How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups

View from Seed

I just invested in a company recently that gathered amazing data from a test that replicated what the app would do using only email interactions. The post Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed.' You can do it with a series of tests, simulations, or small-scale hacks.

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Building A Sales Development Function for Early Stage Startups with Sally Duby

Mucker Lab

Emphasizing phone-based communication skills is pivotal due to significantly higher connect rates compared to email campaigns. Empathy and Relationship Building: SDRs should establish empathetic relationships, showing understanding over phone, email, or LinkedIn interactions.

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Startup PR: A Journalist’s Advice for Seed-Stage Companies Seeking Press Coverage

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Editor’s note: Unlike the Ubers and Airbnbs of the tech startup world, seed-stage companies don’t typically have the valuations, awareness, or traction typically associated with press coverage. That said, coverage is important, and early-stage companies would be wise to work with local press in addition to national.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

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So, I would suggest that you bootstrap during the inception stage. ? Seed stage. Once you have established the feasibility of the business concept and created considerable traction for your business, it is now suitable for the seed stage. You can meet investors in startup events or competitions.