A quick overview from an American on the 10 Things You Need TO KNOW Before Taking Your Business To America. This is a two-part series. America is the largest and easiest market you can possibly choose to do business in. It’s not difficult, but it is very different than your home country and there are a few things you need to know and to do before you go there.

A quick overview from an American on the 10 Things You Need TO KNOW Before Taking Your Business To America. This is a two-part series. America is the largest and easiest market you can possibly choose to do business in. It’s not difficult, but it is very different than your home country and there are a few things you need to know and to do before you go there.

Here’s a one-hour – Building a Pitch Deck and How to Pitch – presentation I had the honor of doing for The Next Society to a room full of entrepreneurs from the MENA region.

OK. You’ve heard it a thousand times. Show me the money. Having been surrounded by entrepreneurs, 24/7, for the past year and a half I’ve seen hundreds of projects and as many founders. For the most part they all have passion, smarts and in many cases a reasonably well thought out idea that they could pitch reasonably […]

Companies can still have zero revenues and have tremendous value. Most VC’s assume $2 per user per year in revenues, with one million users and a multiple of 20X that’s $40 million of value with zero revenues. Good, if you’re a US company. Difficult if you’re in Europe where angels and VC are still struggling with the concept that a company with zero revenues can have tremendous value. So, what’s a European entrepreneur to do? Simple, find a local VC who “get’s it” or come to America and unlock the value you’ve created!

Here are three business development tips you’ll need to be successful: 1) make the f’ring phone call, 2) have something the client wants and 3) actually deliver on what you said you’d deliver. That’s right, sounds simple but hey that’s the fun of having the rubber hit the road.

Some say marketing, some say sales, some say business development. The sale happens where these three come together. Your marketing is the physical manifestation of your strategy; it’s the web site, brochures, videos and ads. Sales is the stuff inside the web site, brochures, videos and ads. And, business development, we’ll that’s a fancy term for when you get your butt out of the office and start knocking on a customer’s door.