Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of $200 billion dollars. Avoid PowerPoint and graphic slide presentations. It allows investors to come into alignment with customers.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2016
People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Seed-round investment. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Could your startup be the next one?
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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. ” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.”
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 1, 2013
It’s easy to forget that your new office rent asks for first, last, and security; new utilities require an escrow account; and new vendors want immediate payment for the first couple of months, before they offer the normal net 30 terms. They pay just the smallest bills and let the rest slide. Then there are the Founders that overreact.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 17, 2016
It’s easy to forget that your new office rent asks for first, last, and security; new utilities require an escrow account; and new vendors want immediate payment for the first couple of months, before they offer the normal net 30 terms. They pay just the smallest bills and let the rest slide. Then there are the founders that overreact.
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
Even investors and experienced founders are caught in the same net as recently educated graduates looking to build companies. or purely invest in established U.S. nationals, making it difficult for investing founders to reach requirements, as well an application checklist with no set amount. Attracting business investment.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 25, 2010
Quite honestly I see way too many company pitches that are designed for Techies but I only want to invest in products designed for Normals. I covered this a bit in my post about the market definition slide in fund raising. I think this is a perfect way to think about the world when you’re designing your product / company.
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