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Can You Do It: Business Pitch in 140 Characters

by Tim Berry on August 19, 2009

in Weblogs

Brevity is good. Brevity for business pitches is good too. The idea of pitching a new business in a single 140-character tweet (pardon the expression) is intriguing to me. Do you think you could do that?
Celebrity entrepreneur Richard Branson is pitching a Twitter pitch contest as part of a startup training program he’s involved in.
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Do Business Plan Contest Winners Make It in the Real World?

by Tim Berry on May 18, 2009

in Angel investment, Business plan marathon, Venture Contests

Craig from trackster.com asked me last week in a comment he added to my Willamette Angel Conference post:

I was wondering with all these business plan competitions that you judge, how many winners or even non winners have you seen turn into successful companies? Are there any examples that you could give?
Yes, a lot of these [...]

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