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10 Things I Hated About Your Business Pitch

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Real businesses make profits like 7 percent, 9 percent, occasionally even low double-digit profits (stated as a percentage of sales). Rarely, some new innovative businesses will get to 20 percent profits to sales. Not just disruptive , but also game changing , market-leading , and viral , and pivot. Please, get a clue.

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10 Things I hated About Your Business Pitch

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Not just disruptive , but market-leading , and viral , and pivot. But don’t quote me a damned IRR. I’ll judge your projections for realism and credibility, but that’s sales, costs, expenses, cash flow, and other basic numbers. Validate sales by bottoms-up assumptions. . Not discounted cash flow. .