Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Because if you’re truly that early / novel there’s a good chance that you’re too early and will spend lots of time / money educating the market. The “competition slide&# of your investment deck is such a great opportunity to talk about how you’re positioned (premium product vs. economical product?

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Venture Capital Slides Competition Education 313

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). 15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. Something like, &# I was thinking about jumping into the demo first before discussing the market.

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Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

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. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I also recently wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. If you’re not “feeling it&# then you need to get to the slides or demo quickly as a means of trying to engage. I need something structured like slides or a demo to orient me.

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Venture Capital Slides Startup Sales 238

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2010

According to the firm, its app--available on the Android Market for $4.99--brings the firm's software to Android 2.2 Chumby's software runs mini apps for viewing stock quotes, weather, video clips, slide show, and other information. ,/p>. READ MORE>>.

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Avalon Slides San Diego Software 160

The Quigley Report

MARCH 4, 2008

Early stage VCs typically say that the ebbs and flows of the stock market don't effect the valuations they pay in start up financings. You see, unless a company only plans on raising one early stage funding round, it must eventually seek capital from a different cast of characters: the later stage or 'growth capital' providers.

Startup 40

Startup Slides Marketing Clearstone 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. Of course sentiment can swing wildly with new information but I set out to take the pulse of the market as we enter 2016. State of the Market.

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Venture Capital Startup Course Marketing 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million. Losses will come a few years from now and take steam out of the market.

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Venture Capital Slides Seed Funding Google 232

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. I put up this slide as part of my discussion. And the truth is that I think this is just a harbinger of what we will see in the private markets very, very soon.

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Venture Capital Slides Capital Funding 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. Thus is venture capital.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. If the questions aren’t organically flowing you have “pocket slides” after the main deck you can pull out to share more information or analysis. This is critical to build a cohesive venture capital firm.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Invest Slides 314

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. Eugene Cho: I saw this market opportunity when I realized that the larger microscope companies, like Nikon, Olympus, and so on were really only focusing their efforts on high end systems, which cost $200,000 plus. How did you start the company?

Tech Coast Angels 124

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. Eugene Cho: I saw this market opportunity when I realized that the larger microscope companies, like Nikon, Olympus, and so on were really only focusing their efforts on high end systems, which cost $200,000 plus. How did you start the company?

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates. Executive team.

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Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 95

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

If these numbers work out, then often scaling is more a question of capital. 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. Often, what we are trying to do initially is show exactly how these numbers play out. Great stuff.

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Metrics Startup Web 2.0 Slides 225

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Reasons to Have a Broad Group of Management Present From a non-exec perspective there are some obvious reason board members want to hear from the heads of sales, market, product, HR, engineering, finance and support. I’ve outlined the key functions in the graphic below. The non-obvious reason is this?—?when

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Startup Slides Ideas Guide 161

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

In a VC business when you raise additional capital you need to “level up” and act the round you are. What they do with the money is add more engineers and maybe hiring a marketing person. Arming & Aiming teams with sales collateral, target client accounts, moving slow-moving deals to the marketing dept.

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Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Entrants will be evaluated based on their plan’s originality, strategy, and market opportunity. CapLinked is an online platform that gives private companies, investors, and their advisors tools to manage a capital raise or asset sale, network, and exchange updates. says CapLinked CEO Eric M. The deadline for entering is November 15.

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Competition Idealab Slides Startup 70

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. It literally can put you out of business.

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Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. The fact that I invest less just means the company is earlier stage and needed/wanted less or without a product/market fit we weren’t yet prepared to invest more heavily.

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Seed Funding Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners 298

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2015

In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

You want to make sure to capitalize on that. Lots of these guys come on the show, already have a niche market, but need some help to step it up to the next level. And, that help is not always capital. As an investor, there is financial capital and intellectual capital.

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Startup Entrepreneur Invest Competition 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2014

In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup News Slides 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

The only real solution is to conquer the chaos, while continually expanding your reach into the available market, and into the improvements in technology. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Conquering chaos requires two key strategies: Mindset strategy.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

The only real solution is to conquer the chaos, while continually expanding your reach into the available market, and into the improvements in technology. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Conquering chaos requires two key strategies: Mindset strategy.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

Jason Nazar

JUNE 1, 2016

These are the pitch techniques the best entrepreneurs employ to raise billions in capital. Forget Your Slides. Have your slides there, reference the key points as needed, but keep the focus on each other — not a slideshow. Investors will probe to see how well you understand your market and business. Don’t Slow Play It.

Slides 49

Slides Startup Entrepreneur Metrics 49

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2017

In business, entrepreneurs hunt for new innovative solutions to problems, new ways of beating competitors, new markets, and new customers. They love the continuous hunt, for investment capital, resources, talent, and new markets. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur News Slides Startup 54

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Brian quickly realized that the Internet was a great distribution system for marketing his books and distributing them electronically.

Startup 223

Startup Yahoo Santa Barbara Slides 223

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. Have minimums but a sliding scale. Large companies can be strange sometimes.

Startup 298

Startup Sales Slides Metrics 298

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

I’m not recommending that you saturate your discussions with lingo, but responding with a blank stare once-too-often won’t convince anyone that you can build the next world-changing business or outpace the market. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

One would imagine with so much influence and potential capital flying in the packed room, the atmosphere must have felt thicker than a frenzied shark tank. They’ve captured their market quickly by being the first providers of affordable luxury bookings with a business model to fill in a large amount of unused travel inventory.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

The bottom line is that you should raise to accelerate growth and in order to optimize market timing. 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. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

The only real solution is to conquer the chaos, while continually expanding your reach into the available market, and into the improvements in technology. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Conquering chaos requires two key strategies: Mindset strategy.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 95

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

No cookies for guessing which reason they use to market to us. If you want to hear an entrepreneur talk about this topic listen to Farb Nivi tell the story of how he got Rob Lord to invest in Grockit and how that led to Reid Hoffman and in turn Benchmark Capital, Integral and Atlas – more than $15 million in total.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The funding environment for tech startups is an ever shifting ground as we go through predictable shifts that go hand-in-hand with the slowing of the overall market. There was an explosion in number of startups both because it was cheap and there was tons of available capital. The market eventually slowed down. VC Infighting.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Seed Funding 150