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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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Snowflakes in the Valley: What Happens When 40 Nordic Entrepreneurs Visit Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

Unsurprisingly, this seems to weed out the less passionate people, while encouraging others to put in sweat equity in their own ideas. The last thing you want when you launch is to tailor to several languages, cultural differences, distribution channels and small blogs and other media.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wong, who was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, says the company’s MVP was built using “sweat equity.”

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wong, who was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, says the company’s MVP was built using “sweat equity.”