Yup! Same is true for fundraising and telling how far along a startup is. | by Aaron Dinin, PhD | Medium

Nice article Aaron.

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Aaron Dinin, PhD

1 min readSep 5, 2020

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Yup! Same is true for fundraising and telling how far along a startup is. Companies that tell the story of heir product have no traction. Companies that tell the story of their customers are the ones that are interesting…

Aaron Dinin, PhD

Written by Aaron Dinin, PhD

I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com

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