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TED Talk 2007: David S. Rose on Pitching to VCs

TED Talk 2007: David S. Rose on Pitching to VCs It’s pretty amazing that the video is from five years ago and has been viewed something like 500,000 times. Even though in the years since, I’ve done a lot more pitch coaching with a lot higher production value, it turns out that there is not […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
14 May 2012
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Can You Find Investors for a Family-Based Team?

I had in interesting discussion at the University of Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition last week. One of the teams there included husband and wife and wife’s father, with a very interesting business plan that I hope succeeds. They asked me to what extent family ties affect angel investor or venture capital interest. Why me? Presumably because […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
8 May 2012
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Copywrong: Brilliant, Disruptive, Illegal Business Plans

Entrepreneurs tend to focus on opportunity rather than risk, and rightly so.  As Steve Blank has written, at its core, a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.  In the lexicon of the lean startup movement, once “product-market fit” has been achieved, the focus shifts to scale and execution as the startup […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
3 May 2012
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Disruption vs. Revenue Quandary and the Tech Bubble

I remember the first tech bubble well. True story: In 1998, one prominent online vendor – long since dead, by the way – was selling my company’s product for $66 when the distributor price was $76. Also true: In 2000, a would-be acquirer flirted with buying Palo Alto Software for its web traffic, but wanted to leave […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
1 May 2012
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6 Reasons Why Startup Prototypes Attract Investors

It’s a long way from an entrepreneur’s “idea” to a working product with a real market and paying customers. A necessary intermediate step for proof of concept, credibility with potential investors, and communication with your team, is a working prototype. Building a prototype should be an early and high priority task for every startup. A […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
29 Apr 2012
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