Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Too many sales reps walk into customer meetings with their pre-canned sales decks and proudly squawk through 30 of their favorite slides without engaging the customer in a discussion. And then there’s the key transition slide, which I call “What We Find” (WWF) or some variation of this. Just watch Mad Men and you’ll know that.

Sales 367

Sales Slides Startup Custom 367

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even if it’s only a few PowerPoint slides or typed paragraphs, writing something down is the first step toward making it real. Before you know it, you will have a ten-slide pitch that you can use to gauge interest from potential customers, as well as friends, family, and early investors.

Ideas 99

Ideas Slides Writing Startup 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

So what are some of the key points that you should highlight in your investor slides to convince investors that you indeed do have a long-term competitive advantage over other alternatives in the marketplace? Non-specific terms, like better usability and low cost don’t incite customers to action these days.

Competition 166

Competition Funding Startup Patents 166

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

He didn’t mean to make a media storm out of it – it was a simple comment on his Facebook page. But then Marc Andreessen weighed in – as did I and several others – and the media picked up on his comments. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. ” My 3.5 There are giant redwoods.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

As an angel it was seeing some amazing progress from some of my portfolio companies such as Scopely, Jukin Media, and MobCrush. One was a blip way back in mid February which I thought would be the start to a big slide but it wasn't. For Amplify it was the raising of our third fund. What's the biggest lesson you learned this year?

Southern California 100

Southern California Startup Slides News 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

But they can otherwise save you much time and effort, and are also safer and more productive than the old-fashioned approach of broadcast emailing or cold-calling every investor you can find in online directories, or responding to the risky spam offers you get for funding on social media. Register Internet and social media startup names.

Platform 94

Platform Equity Invest Technical Advisors 94

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

In its quarterly results, the firm continued to see a slide in the firm's dial up business, down to $54.1M Classmates Media revenues totaled $58.2M, roughly flat from last year. for Q2, down 17% from Q2 last year. United Online operates NetZero and other, dial-up Internet access services.

Woodland Hills 100

Woodland Hills Slides Report Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. Chamillionaire has a way more refined sense of what customer behavior is like than most ivy league graduates with nice Powerpoint slides that I meet. Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA.

Conference 150

Conference Slides Social Media Summary 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides.

Funding 73

Funding Social Media Slides Platform 73

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

He wanted to know how to get started and “Could I intro him to a couple of local angels?&# One night after a DealMaker Media event we got 20 minutes together after the event ended. We missed our sales target by more than 66% for the year but we had great slides explaining why. He was stuck on capital raising. “Why?

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 17, 2011

As he lowers his loupe for a moment and glances up from his slides, he suddenly notices a flash of brown amidst all the white outside his window. The article opens with a touching scene: FEBRUARY 1984: It’s a classic winter day in Aspen, and snow is falling like heavy cotton as Jeffrey sits hunched over his light table editing film.

Slides 164

Slides Blogging Writing Demand 164

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2016

It is a “Sliding Doors” tale of a couple of life events that lift Vance and propel him to cross socio-economic lines that are increasingly harder to pierce in the United States. This is where Sliding Doors creeps in. In each case J.D. could have made slightly different choices and had a greatly different life outcome.

Class 211

Class Education Slides Venture Capital 211

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

These are captured fairly well by his slide: The beauty of what he's defined is the relationship between retention and referral efforts and lifetime value. channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution He also points a fair bit to Eric Ries – The lean startup. Great stuff.

Metrics 225

Metrics Startup Web 2.0 Slides 225

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Uber developed software used to upload, organize, and share content through a free web site; the site also provided photo galleries, slide shows, videos, and blogs. Uber blamed the crisis in the economy for the shutdown. READ MORE>>

Slides 100

Slides Social Network Web Blogging 100

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. Don Norman at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , June 21, 2010 Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide. Stylish visualisations, tons of data.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The first slide was entitled, “Once Upon a Time in Jorts&# as I found an old picture of myself and Jeremy Anticouni (we’ve worked together for 14 years, 3 companies) and sadly, I was wearing a pair of jorts. Tags: Eric Greenspan make it work customer service mini cooper social media training Twitter. It was a great day!

News 172

News Santa Barbara Social Media Custom 172

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Though, it’s possible that some people were there because of the confusion, Reiss certainly pleased the crowd and kept them in their seats as his presentation with power point slides and funny pictures seemed more like a stand up improv than your typical business presentation. ” On UX not just being about websites. .

Social Media 101

Social Media Design Los Angeles Media 101

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. I started to build this into a media & entertainment value chain that broke down the components of the industry into discrete parts. Were they vertically integrated ?

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

I can tell you that mobile ads are going to deliver serious revenue & growth to those who understand how they will be different from those that came from other media types. How ads work are always different across media types.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. He built & IPOd Demand Media. And here is your moment of zen … the full deck with many additional slides. An abbreviated version of this post appeared yesterday on TechCrunch. Tell a friend.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. landing pages, etc.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

What happens with gamers, is their music experience is one where they found good immediately, where they can look like rock stars, slide around on the floor, hold the guitar up in the air, etc. In You Rock mode, it will map away all the wrong notes, so as you slide down the fretboard, you still sound good.

Orange County 244

Orange County Startup Slides Paramount 244

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. Competitor: Slide. Transaction terms: $70.0mm (rumored by Peter Kafka, Media Memo, AllThingsD ). Total raised: $129.0mm. InviteMedia (acquired by Google).

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. It’s fair for you to ask for a few slides from each in advance, and make sure the overall story is complete and consistent. Set up an interview room, stocked with current docs.

Invest 59

Invest Startup Doc Slides 59

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape. Put up your slide with the 5-6 logos of journals that have covered you. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait.

Venture Capital 291

Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

. - Union Square Ventures , June 10, 2010 No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models - Steve Blank , April 8, 2010 Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events (..)

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Certainly a slide or two needs to carry over describing the product and features at a high level. I would expect to see specific plans for distribution, partnerships, and sales channels, as well as the use of social media and conventional marketing, with budgets for the major elements.

Product 58

Product Slides Entrepreneur Invest 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

After viewing your slide deck, if investors are still interested in your startup, they will ask for a deep-dive meeting to drill in on any hard questions before commencing due diligence. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing. Deep-dive meeting.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

So what are some of the key points that you should highlight in your investor slides to convince investors that you indeed do have a long-term competitive advantage over other alternatives in the marketplace? Non-specific terms, like better usability and low cost don’t incite customers to action these days.

Competition 93

Competition Startup Patents Slides 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

I recommend making friends the first formal test of your elevator pitch, your investor slide deck, and your business plan, and earnestly ask for their advice (not money) early. Some entrepreneurs don’t want to put friends and family on the spot, so they keep all discussions very casual. Vision alone rarely convinces people to invest.

Funding 60

Funding Startup Ideas Slides 60

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Tags: Eric Greenspan make it work customer service mini cooper social media training Twitter.

Burbank 156

Burbank Yahoo News Social Media 156

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

sure, still slightly awkward to slide into your back-pocket comfortably. Story Album™ transforms photos you take with the Mega’s 8-megapixel camera into multi-media albums with music, videos and notes. Yes, I know bluetooth headsets are all the rage but personally, I like the Yurbuds IRONman earphones. Exclusive to AT&T, the 6.3-inch

Screening 91

Screening Press Slides Email 91

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Alex Napetschnig added that their unusual but very effective guerilla advertising stunts, ranging from little “homemade“ car-table-slide-action-videos to weekly Klash dare campaigns contributed to a very strong brand for the “not born for boring“ identity. Daring Inspiration. Its inspiration was daring too.

Invest 68

Invest Slides Ideas Mobile 68

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I would try a line like, “I know that some of you might be social media experts and others may be less deep on this particular area. I have a few slides later that address that.&# (obviously if you say that you need to come back to the question either later or after the meeting. tip: write it down when asked / parked).

Venture Capital 318

Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation. Since there are 10-12 slides this gave me my first few weeks. You’re not trying to build a consumer website like Mint.com. Some search. Both Sides of the Table. Now I’m a VC.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286