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John Hanak
Aug 9, 20213 min read
I Didn’t Have This Problem Yesterday
One of the greatest insights into the entrepreneur’s mindset happened to me early in my incubator manager days. I was doing...
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John Hanak
Jul 19, 20213 min read
Startup Tactics: 5 Ways to Keep Your Future Peeps Informed
They may be investors. They may be employees. They may be customers. They may be alliance partners. They don’t know yet and you don’t...
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John Hanak
Jul 11, 20213 min read
Three Dynamics of Change
I just finished up an exercise in mapping the major changes and seismic shifts over the years of my work life: corporate, startup,...
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John Hanak
Jul 4, 20212 min read
A Quick Ride Up – Your Elevator Pitch
How long does the average elevator ride last? How many floors up or down is the average elevator ride? What are the odds of having the...
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John Hanak
Jun 28, 20212 min read
Mastery
What makes for a successful pitch? Is it the same for pitching to investors, to potential customers, to future employees, to the local...
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John Hanak
May 13, 20212 min read
Design Your Investor Approach – Wrap Up The Plan
One final worksheet to round out your investor approach strategy. Then it’s time to start running! Worksheet III* is every bit as simple...
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John Hanak
May 10, 20213 min read
Design Your Investor Approach - The Preliminaries
This is the first follow-on blog to Design Your Investor Approach. Of all the worksheets I will be providing, this is certainly the...
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John Hanak
May 9, 20213 min read
Design Your Investor Approach
Go to nrpworld to register for free access to the supporting tools in the NRP Vault for this blog series called “Design Your Investor...
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John Hanak
May 4, 20213 min read
Chasing Capital Redux
I originally wrote this Blog months ago – and then didn’t publish it until February of this year on www.wendykennedy.com. I wrote it...
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John Hanak
May 2, 20212 min read
How Not to Pitch
“I don’t handle criticism well and could possibly get violent if provoked.” And so began the pitch that he had begged for us to hear for...
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John Hanak
Apr 28, 20214 min read
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Plan
Badges? Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges. And so, I paraphrase from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. 1948. I am a killjoy. How...
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John Hanak
Apr 26, 20212 min read
No Market Need!?
I have seen multiple reports claiming that something like over 40% of startups fail because they offer something the market doesn’t need....
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