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13 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Best Business Advice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. I have held back because I place more value on the relationship.

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VC Corner: Marlon Nichols, Cross Culture VC

Startup Grind

He has worked with several startups, invested in companies like Mayvenn, Gimlet Media, Blavity, Airspace Technologies, Codeverse, and many others Pitch your startup for a chance to meet with Cross Culture VC Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission? Build a strong and good company culture 2. In other words, why will we win?

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Successful People Know the Value of Advice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Psychology Today notes that taking advice somehow feels like admitting that we don’t really deserve our high status. But truly successful people understand that the advice and knowledge of people who have been-there, done-that is priceless. Whose advice would you seek out? What would you ask them? What would you ask them?

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Attention metrics, growth through retention, cold-calling advice

TechCrunch

Pitching a startup to investors without a personal recommendation isn’t a terrible idea — as long as you’ve done your research first. Rigopoulos and Bamberger shared their cold-calling advice with TC+, along with the full text of one of their winning emails and a detailed breakdown of the three-step process they used.

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Why Emmy Award-winning documentarians focused their lens on 5 GSEA student entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We wanted to tell a story of people from all different parts of the world, with different upbringing, backgrounds, and cultures. Foster: “I was most impressed by the culture and the environment EO created through GSEA for this event. Instead, we saw competitors supporting each other by giving advice and feedback.

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Three Startup Pitch Deck Mistakes That Are Red Flags For Venture Investors

Hunter Walk

Some entrepreneurs are born salespeople, others find it more awkward but ultimately realize getting comfortable pitching — to investors, to the team, to potential employees, and so on — is part of the job. As with all advice, Your Mileage Might Vary. Hopefully every startup finds the right investors!

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An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

This drew the attention away from companies in the space that weren’t trying to be anything but what they are—cultures that employees have very low expectations of. Did they create enough rules and guidelines around values and culture that were informed from the perspective of women of color? Did any company? That’s how the game works.