Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

Professional investors normally like to invest only in billion dollar opportunities, with double-digit growth rates. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here. Is the opportunity large and growing? Do include some quantification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Startup Statistics Social Media 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Professional investors normally like to invest only in billion dollar opportunities, with double-digit growth rates. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here. Is the opportunity large and growing? Do include some quantification.

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Startup Education Ideas Customer 166

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

For example, “I have patented a new LCD with double the intensity at half the cost, already proven locally, and I just need resources to scale for this market.” For example, “Unlike all the other LCD providers, our patented high intensity light has no blue tint or glare that looks unnatural.” Build up for the punch line at the end.

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Startup Summary Patents Examples 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Statistics Startup Social Media 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

According to the Angel Capital Association , at least 300,000 people have made angel investments in the last two years, totaling $24 billion in the U.S. It takes more than one person, no matter how passionate, to grow an investible business. Prepare an executive summary and investor presentation.

Angel 65

Angel Startup Technical Review Social Media 65

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

It is a truism that with more capital you will hire people more quickly and spend more liberally whether it’s on external contractors, PR firms, attending events, doing legal work (trademarks, patents) or whatever. Summary There’s no right answer, only trade offs. There are some great funds that operate this way and I see some merits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan. It does need to include a high-level summary of the components in the product plan, with key additional sections as follows: Definition of customer problem, followed by your solution. Marty Zwilling.

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Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. A conundrum for many frustrated entrepreneurs is that they need money from investors to design and build a prototype product, yet most angel investors expect to see at least a prototype before they invest. Build an investor presentation and summary.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan. It does need to include a high-level summary of the components in the product plan, with key additional sections as follows: Definition of customer problem, followed by your solution.

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Statistics 109

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

You can watch this week’s TWiVC episode by clicking on the link and my summary notes are below. {if plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. if you missed Episode 1 it is here }.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Technical Review Statistics Startup 119

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

He lays out very plainly his own experiences on both sides of this equation, and I particularly enjoyed his summary startup roadmap of twenty-one steps to success, which add real content to the eight that I recommend to every entrepreneur: Select an idea you can clearly communicate in thirty seconds.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Ideas Pricing Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. In summary, I see a historic shift taking place in the world today. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business.

Startup 102

Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM Social Network 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse.

Funding 62

Funding Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Professional investors normally like to invest only in billion dollar opportunities, with double-digit growth rates. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here. Is the opportunity large and growing? Do include some quantification.

Startup 58

Startup Education Ideas Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. In summary, I see a historic shift taking place in the world today. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” You need both to survive.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

In 1994, (I know a long time ago), I invested over a million dollars (two million six hundred thousand in today’s dollars) into a company whose entrepreneurs had a vision that I bought into for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had industry experience and understood the need. Let me tell you a short story at my own expense.

Competition 156

Competition Research Summary Pricing 156

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

For a well-funded A or B round company I have recommended “ leveling up ,” which entails many things but in summary I tell people to “act your stage.” One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. Shame on you.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. In summary, I see a historic shift taking place in the world today. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business.

Startup 50

Startup High Tech Search Engine Optimization SEM 50

Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

In 1994, (I know a long time ago), I invested over a million dollars into a company whose entrepreneurs had a vision that I bought into for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had industry experience and understood the need. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment.

Competition 266

Competition Research Summary Pricing 266

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

Here is my summary of key principles that you can follow to join that select realm of recognized and successful entrepreneurs: Thinking and talking won’t get you there – just do it. As well, Jeff Bezos admits to having make an embarrassing number of bad investments, which he calls painful learning experiences, but he never gave up.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Software Review 131

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

In 1994, (I know a long time ago), I invested over a million dollars into a company whose entrepreneurs had a vision that I bought into for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had industry experience and understood the need. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment.

Marketing 247

Marketing Competition Research Summary 247

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Summary notes, as always, provide below. We talked about patents. Bill doesn’t think you should over invest in them but he does believe in protecting ideas when you have a true invention and many of his companies have done so. To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. Overture (Goto.com).

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! We invested the first $1 million to develop version 1.0 ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes. Relaxing 2.

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Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40