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How to become the Captain
Sometimes, people take a long hard look at themselves. They evaluate their goals, failures, and successes and stack themselves against their aspirations and their inspirations. It’s one of the healthiest exercises one can do, after all “know thyself” like Socrates says. When that person is an entrepreneur or business owner, they also take a long hard look at their business, asking themselves similar questions.
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State of the Eclyptix Union, Part 1
After a decently lengthy hiatus from blogging, it’s a new year and I have a fresh vigor for writing about things that are meaningful to me both as a person and as the CEO of Eclyptix. What exactly does that mean? It means that I’m going to write with more candor about personal development, what’s going on in tech and interactive and of course what gets me most excited –startups–. I’m not going to to lie – blogging for me has gotten boring and a bit arduous, especially in light of my constant workload. But don’t get me wrong, I’ve re-committed to write honestly about my day-to-day life, both as a person and as a CEO of an Interactive Agency
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Finding Investors for your Website – Part 4
Having a killer pitch is of utmost importance in securing investors for your project. It’s imperative you have a business plan, marketing plan and projections. It’s important to have an engaging executive summary. A project blueprint for the website is critical to investors understanding and feeling comfortable with the launch strategy. A logo for your business/website and any mocked up pages from the website helps tremendously. Essentially, the further along in the process of building out a successful website, the better off you are. The more you can provide in the way of blueprints, designs, coded pages, functional sections, or a beta version the higher your chances of landing investors are.
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Finding Investors For Your Website – Part 2
It’s absolutely imperative to have a carefully thought out, researched and professional master business plan for your website. Equally important is a marketing plan. It’s also very important that financial projections and monetization strategy is incorporated into your business plan. Investors want to see your concept fleshed out, stacked against the competitive marketplace and thoroughly analyzed. The more information and context you can provide them, the more likely you are to ease any concerns they may have and preempt their otherwise imminent questions.
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