All Things Startup: 43North, Pitching, Investing & Scaling Your Company | #AskGaryVee Episode 197
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#QOTD: Tell me your startup story.
#timestamps:
0:00 Intro
5:15 - How does a startup know when to add staff? What positions are most critical to line up first?
8:03 - What are 2 or 3 things that makes one pitch stand out from all the other ones?
11:25 - Ideas alone can only get you so far, but once you've gotten off the ground, what does an investor need to see to invest in a startup?
13:19 - For an early stage startup that just received 500K, 600K or 1 million dollars in capital, what are the critical things they should be looking to address?
16:19 - When assessing the scalability of a company, what are the things you look for?
19:43 - It seems like emerging startup markets are becoming increasingly viable. What are cities like Buffalo doing right?
#LINKS:
Contest Info Link:
http://www.43north.org/competition/
Video submissions:
Painless1099 - https://painless1099.com/
Plum - http://plum.io/
Energy Intelligence - http://energyintel.us/
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