Rose Hulman Presentation, April 2007
Skills: Selling, Writing, Telling the truth
The role of luck & timing
Cost of Sales
Uncompensated effort & education: another kind of investment
Profit vs. Traction
Heat: inefficiency, mistakes, people
Amplifiers: PR, Partners, IP, Prepayments, VM?, Webpage, image/branding
Alchemy
Antiventurecapital.com
Everything can go wrong - as opposed to Anything can go wrong. (The latter sounds like only ONE THING can go wrong.)
Assholes you have to deal with