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Why being a VC sucks. Advice to anyone who wants to get into venture capital.

This is going to be BIG.

Since there''s no way to both make yourself accessible and not get a fire hose of inbound, most of the pitches you''re going to have are from perfectly nice, smart people who have perfectly horrific, unworkable ideas. 2) People pitch you. Even the best and most active board members can still feel pretty helpless.

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How to Adapt Your Pitch for Your C-Suite Executive Targets

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Otherwise, you lose sales even before you start Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Do not mistake the perfect pitch for the well-rehearsed (read: memorized) presentation. The cookie-cutter pitch presentation kills your sales pipeline before you actually have one. My team members call it the Pitch Perfect experience.

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Anyone is building a marketplace for advice, one 5-minute call at a time

TechCrunch

Anyone , an audio app that’s building a ‘marketplace for advice’ one five-minute phone call at a time, is launching new versions of its iOS and Android apps today* and beginning to large-scale onboarding after operating in a limited closed beta for the past six months. It’s one-to-one only.

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Luos is building an API to help embedded engineers connect easily to any hardware component

TechCrunch

To put this capability in reach of any embedded hardware engineer, the company has developed an open source library that enables developers to create these different generic profiles. Prior to creating this framework, engineers would typically create custom code for each component on a board, a time-consuming and frustrating process.

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How to find a Technical Co-Founder for your Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Pitch Deck Get your idea onto paper; it’s far easier to convey that way. Upskill There are now countless resources to enable you to learn basic coding skills for little money.

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How to Get Your First 1,000 Mobile App Users

Entrepreneur's Handbook

With new technology enabling better, faster and easier-to-use software to build better, faster and easier-to-use products, the market is becoming busier by the second. There’s an old adage that says, “ask for money and you’ll get advice; ask for advice and you might get money.” So how do you stand out from the crowd?

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Founders should consider pre-Seed to Series A fundraising as full-time job – Phylicia Koh, VP, Play Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. We see ourselves as a mix of cheerleaders, enablers (when it makes sense), sanity checks, and sounding boards. That guides how we work with founders and thankfully, it seems to have paid off.