SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? Have you raised capital? We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) How Does it Work? Who's the customer? Are there specs?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? Have you raised capital? We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) How Does it Work? Who's the customer? Are there specs?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2019

I like his summary of five kinds of questions that can help you change your leadership effectiveness, and your organization’s view of reality when faced with complex new issues: Questions that highlight key roadblocks to a solution. His life proves that leadership is learned, not a birthright.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

We''ve created a marketplace that allows these business to instead access capital from individual and institutional investors, who get a return and also get to support small businesses in a way they couldn''t do so before. You can show them what your growth is like, give them a financial summary, and they can interact with you.

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Startup Software Review Entrepreneur Equity 247

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Internet scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report. Think about venture capital. In Summary. Third most powerful economic city in the world after NYC & Tokyo.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. His best advice: take capital where you can get it. Designate a point person to handle the relationships. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. These usually come into play at the seed stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I support their summary of the seven capital assets that are the core required to create a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, and produce real economic value for your startup and the rest of us: Intellectual capital – ideas, information, technologies. A commitment to constant learning will raise your intellectual capital.

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Resource Startup Capital Mentor 131

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail. If you plan to read the post you can skip the summary if you want. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Just 12 bullet points & you’re done.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close. What should be in the deck?

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Venture Capital Slides Doc Startup 340

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

His talk was especially intriguing, as he attended UCSB, but dropped out to start a clothing design company. Chaos By Design. Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details. This is a lead up into an executive summary. In his entrepreneurial Tribe, he is the Shaman.

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Ideas Guide Startup Santa Barbara 266

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital. The sales market is as pure capitalism as it gets. It’s a sexy title when you can’t design products, program computers or sell! In summary I say that channels can be the lifeblood of startups.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

His talk was especially intriguing, as he attended UCSB, but dropped out to start a clothing design company. Chaos By Design . Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details. This is a lead up into an executive summary. According to Seth, “This is how I evaluate an idea.

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Ideas Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 69

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. The best designed mobile apps use the accelerometer, the camera, map integration, location, contact book integration, QR codes and so on. Think about Snapchat.

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Summary notes, as always, provide below. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . Venture Capital Funding 7. I'm 30, now will you take me seriously? Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible? Relaxing 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below.

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