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Reach retail buyers with this Facebook Messenger BOT

Reach retail buyers with this Facebook Messenger BOT

I drank the Facebook Cool-Aide in 2014 when I was consulting at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park. Facebook has a unique program called DogFooding that offers each employee $250 of monthly Ad Credit for trying Facebook Ads. And it worked. I...

Top 6 mistakes to avoid when pitching to investors

Top 6 mistakes to avoid when pitching to investors

During the past decade, I have attended many deal screenings at different VC and Angel groups in Silicon Valley. One of my favorite deal screening sessions happens at Keiretsu Forum which is chaired by Randy Williams. During these sessions,...

Top 6 signs you have a bad CEO

Top 6 signs you have a bad CEO

The year was 1992 and I had taken our startup's CEO to a meeting with one of my client companies. This Manufacturing giant had agreed to a record $1.3M agreement for the global deployment of our Design Collaboration software. This software was...