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What are some creative ways to pitch a new initiative to my team without slides?

Use a whiteboard.

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5:03 pm / 2nd October 2013 / business, funding, marketing, speaking, startups, quora, pitching

What’s an idea worth?

I like Derek Siver’s model proposed here: http://sivers.org/multiply

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2:02 pm / 29th July 2013 / business, entrepreneurship, funding, ideas, startups, technology, quora

What criteria should a company meet in order to have a 5 million dollars valuation?

They need to convince an investor to buy 10% of the company for $500,000.

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10:12 am / 31st December 2011 / business, funding, quora

Does Y Combinator ever fund British startups?

Yes. Our startup http://lanyrd.com/ went through Y Combinator Winter 2011 (Jan to March this year) and we’re a pair of UK co-founders. We’re back in London now.

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12:26 pm / 6th July 2011 / business, entrepreneurship, funding, startups, ycombinator, quora

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