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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 120,000 members worldwide.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. We’re Not Here for a Sales Call. Disabusing the audience of the notion that the visit is a sales call is vital to the customer discovery mission. But we are not here for a sales call.&#.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis. He wanted to raise angel money.

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 50 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 60,000 members worldwide. They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Angel investors are people too.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. The world’s best brains are on sale. They would invent many more jobs than they would supplant.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

And of course many of you know this is near and dear to me because my own father is from Medellín, Colombia so I grew up in a household with the music, food, culture and language of South America. And we’re growing our sales organization. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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What You Can Do To Make Customer Care Your Most Effective Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? Staying focused on a marketing strategy built around customer service is a long-game move that can be easy to get distracted from when you are pressured to make more sales now. Would you do it? Of course you would.

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