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Does your market buzz sound like a squeal?
Posted in February 15th, 2009
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As a follow-up to my involvement in the FastTrac – TechVenture series co-hosted by St. Pete College & the STARTEC Accelerator, I am re-posting one of my all time favorites by Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing “Stop Perfuming the Pig“. Every exec team or wannabe tech founder needs to read this post and ask themselves [...]
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Business Plans… Just Say No!
Posted in February 2nd, 2009
Published in Startups, Techonomic Development
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I recently read a post on LinkedIn asking for opinions on the value of formal business plans for pre-venture backed start-ups. I guess technically all start-ups are pre-venture, it’s just that most never have a prayer of actually raising any venture backing or even talking to a real VC. It reminds me of most of [...]