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Pitch Deck Month: “What Do You Do?” Slide

View from Seed

What I loved about his pitch is that he summed up both the market problem and the simple north star of the business in one pithy sentence. The first is that the founder is worried that the investor won’t “get” what they are building unless they go through an elaborate preamble on the state of their market.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

get the attention of the market they choose. For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. It’s very important.

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Twitter Link Roundup #209 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to use crowdsourcing for your next design project | Phoenix Business Journal – crowdspring.co/LpYkNE. Report: The Collaborative Economy is a $110b market - crowdspring.co/1mlgECF.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. Although I initially dismissed DevOps as just another marketing fad, my friend John Willis corrected me, in the way that only true friends can do, saying, “Don’t be dense. A novel, you might ask?

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How To Find The Best City For Your Type Of Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

get the attention of the market they choose. For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. It’s very important.

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5 Signs that You are Ready to Scale Business and Deploy Innovation

ReadWriteStart

The biggest challenge is to define the right moment for taking action leading to efficient business scaling, growth marketing , and creating a successful product. You must be ready to make as many mistakes as needed to refine the market-ready product or scale business less stressfully. An entrepreneur is like a phoenix.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

It’s clear that Link put a lot of thought into the design of their space, providing co-workers with excellent lighting, some of the best chairs on the market, and even views of inspirational green space. Current members include marketers, writers, web developers, and non-profit tech companies. Thinkspace. Ignition Alley.