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How to Pitch Fortune 100 Companies

Published March 1, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: InfluenceTagged competition, startups, tech startup, Selling your idea, learning how to pitch your deal, How to Pitch Your Startup to Fortune 100 Companies, amazing presenters, Fortune 100 companies, due diligence, pitch your company, Pitching your company
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No matter how good your tech or service may be, if you can’t pitch it extremely well — in a simple yet powerful way — your business will fail. Selling your idea is as important as the idea itself… Founders everywhere, from all types of …

Are You Too Close to Your Company?

Published September 4, 2015 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Culture of CapitalismTagged entrepreneurs, business plan, tech startup, new tech deals, big picture pitch, simple pitch is far more effective than a complex one, overselling, pitching your startup
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I spent the first half of the week editing a comprehensive business plan for my new tech startup. I’m bias of course, but it’s an exciting company. And we’re working on what could be some game changing technology. The potential benefits of the technology are …

Never Content. Never Idle.

Published March 24, 2015 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Technology, StartupsTagged entrepreneurs, Leadership, Airbnb, Uber, startup, investors, tech startup, VCs, valuation, Raising money, big financings, enthusiasm, financing capital
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A tech startup team creates a fantastic app, hustles their ass off to perfect it, and then raises several million dollars from VCs to get a favorable valuation and take things to the next level… We often read about tech startup stories similar to that, …

Are You a Winter Soldier?

Published February 5, 2015 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: MotivationTagged entrepreneurs, startup, entrepreneurship, tech startup, persevere, office, my son, new venture, winter soldier, starting a new business, Thomas Paine, Revolutionary War, summer soldiers, be an entrepreneur
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My eyes are throbbing. It’s almost midnight and I’ve been stuck in my office since 7:30 this morning… writing and researching on the computer with a headset wrapped around my dome. I must have taken 50 calls today and yet didn’t have the time to …

Beware of ADD Money

Published December 3, 2014 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: InfluenceTagged startup, innovation, venture capital, Stress, tech startup, respect the money, raising seed capital, ADD money, activist investors, early stage tech startup, great venture capitalists
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The term ‘respect the money’ in the finance world - particularly within venture capital circles - is frequently used. And it’s sound advice. Any group or individual willing to put up the capital, which will allow you to pursue a new venture, must be respected. …

Google’s $500 Million Secret

Published November 2, 2014 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Technology, StartupsTagged Silicon Valley, startups, Google, tech startup, startup tech companies, disruptive concepts, Series B, technology startup, Magic Leap, early stage funding, disruptive technology, augmented reality technology, Rony Abovitz, Magic Leap's technology, Google invested half a billion dollars in this startup
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I get excited when it comes to startup tech companies with disruptive concepts. These days, that means I’m getting excited a lot - almost every time I get a news alert about the latest major Series B going down somewhere in the world. With that …

India’s World-Class Tech Startups at Rock Bottom Valuations

Published September 30, 2014 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Technology, StartupsTagged Silicon Valley, innovative, startups, Vinod Khosla, tech startup, India's technology sector, valuations, Bookpad, cheap valuations, tech industry, Impermium, Little Eye, great tech startups, Yuri Milner, cost effective operations, Indian Institute of Technology, tech acquisitions out of India
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If India’s technology sector is not on your radar, it should be. India offers a combination of two economic advantages the rest of the world is unable to. First, its people are extremely innovative and provide unique solutions to current technological and economic challenges. Second, …

Never Partner With Someone in Business Just Because They Have Deep Pockets

Published March 24, 2014 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Investing, StartupsTagged reputation, startup tech investments, tech startup, tech company, alternative energy, G8 Government, R&D stage, commercialization, joint venture partnership, Minority partners, start-up phase, silent partners
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I was awoken around 5AM to a text message from my business partner. It read “spoke to Bob… sounds like he’s given up.” Translation: My business partner was informing me that one of our startup tech investments, which combined we had roughly $150,000 of our …

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