Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Early-stage companies shouldn’t: outsource core product development, have consulting firms build it for them to speed up time-to-market, shouldn’t hire too many business people until product is complete and early product/market fit tested. Ok, well not that pretty since I do my own slides and often at 1am.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 13, 2011
I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post?
Tech.Co
MAY 31, 2017
Put it in the slides: At the 2016 event, Liu & Huang overlooked the need to include some of their key findings in their slide deck. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog. Interested in entrepreneurship, web development, or data science? Interested in entrepreneurship, web development, or data science?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2013
If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. And then there’s the key transition slide, which I call “What We Find” (WWF) or some variation of this. Click here.
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. According to the firm's web site, as of September 29, the firm's investors have decided to stop supporting the site, and the company has closed its doors.
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. Start by developing an “elevator pitch,” that you can deliver in thirty seconds to hook a potential customer or investor.
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