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If you had the option of placing a bet either before the race starts or half way through it, what would you choose? Obviously, you would choose to place the bet half way through.

You should avoid a 45 minute bullet pointed snore-fest at all costs. Keep it simple. Use plenty of pictures and graphs.

This certainly applies to VCs. If you contact them directly or send in a business plan you are wasting your time. They rely on recommendations from attorneys, CPAs and trusted advisers. You have to go through these to get to the VC.

A recession may seem to be a bad time to start a business. However, I beg to differ. Recessions are like naturally occurring forest fires. A lot of dead wood is eliminated and new green shoots soon appear.  It should be your objective to become one of these new green shoots. We should also remember [...]