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A Tale of Two Fundraising Stories

This is going to be BIG.

With one company, a founder and his super inspirational, creative, and established buddy hatch a plan to build a very strong content brand that serves as a platform for a lot of diverse revenue streams--events, ecommerce, advertising. The first pitch I got was from someone who didn''t intend on staying with the business as an employee.

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Admitting that you have no idea what you're doing

This is going to be BIG.

This is part of the reason that automating minutiae, adopting rituals, and applying creativity only where it’s most valuable (e.g. I tried pitching business development ideas, coming up with marketing ploys. not deciding what to eat for breakfast) is so important to me.".

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

Below is a link to the pitch video. There wasn’t any context around it—not exactly something I’d call a “pitch”. I explained that this wasn’t really a pitch because it lacked all sorts of context. He went off to go recruit a team of aviation experts—people who had consulted on and built serious vehicles and projects.

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Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

Both Sides of the Table

The specific things you’re looking for are: intelligence, ability to think creatively, ability to work with customers on vaguely defined problems, ability to assemble an ROI business case (with a template already created by marketing) and above all else the ability to listen, summarize and follow-through. It is a consultative sale.

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. I was not licensed, did not have a college degree, could not code.

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Appropriate Accessibility: Announcing nextNYC Open Office Hours

This is going to be BIG.

You can check out the teaser on the Open Office Hours site and stay tuned for full interviews with Sakib Jamal, Jenny Fielding, Jerry Neuman, Lucy Deland, Joe Eagan, and Ben Sun to be posted in the nextNYC weekly newsletter.

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3 Lessons Learned from Living in Adventure Mode

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. We were resilient, creative, driven—and each time we were snubbed, it made us more determined to win the account. I was not the “obvious” choice to build and scale a company—but I did it anyway.