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. Let’s start with the money slide: 10 years ago there was about the same money pouring into VC as found its way into startups but in the past two years 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. Once you prepare the deck each department that contributed slides feels compelled to get it’s half hour of time presenting their progress.

Tips 212

Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

The Quigley Report

MARCH 4, 2008

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. These firms most definitely do look at public stock market valuations as a measure of how to price a private company. And guess what?

Startup 40

Startup Slides Marketing Clearstone 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. He was stuck on capital raising. This was such a guy.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

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. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. An abbreviated version of this post appeared yesterday on TechCrunch. Success begets success.

Entrepreneur 376

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. So we had to raise capital to meet orders. Explain what's special about Echo's microscopes, and what's your background? There are typically two types of microscopes.

Tech Coast Angels 124

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

One of the biggest mistakes I see at board meetings is what I call the “filibuster board” in which the executive team spends 2 hours going through 100 slides and runs out the clock with no discussion. What Should We Talk About at Board Meetings?

Startup 234

Startup Slides Venture Capital Course 234

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. So we had to raise capital to meet orders. Explain what's special about Echo's microscopes, and what's your background? There are typically two types of microscopes.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Employees stop innovating.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

I was horrified, because I had all these people sending me money -- so I doubled the price, because I didn''t know what else to do. In three weeks, I have a 300-order backlog, so I doubled the price again.". I''m not hiding behind any slides. bring in investor capital, and. and in two weeks I had a 200 order backlog.

Startup 223

Startup Yahoo Santa Barbara Slides 223

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Employees stop innovating.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

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. How this works: I try to set a price that feels like a fair balance between GRP and the company. So we’re bound to frame the issue in slightly different terms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Employees stop innovating.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 95

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2009

If your valuation is already too high then seek approval to let them invest at a price lower than the current value. It’s OK to have the advisor slide where you glance quickly over the names. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. At a $2 million valuation this is 0.5% Others must echo my experiences.

Startup 306

Startup Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 306

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

I make exceptions for companies with proper venture capital funds that are mostly autonomous like Comcast, Disney (Steamboat) and Intel Capital – all of which are great funds. A “warrant&# is a right, but not an obligation for a company to buy stock in your company at a future date and at a pre-agreed price.

Startup 298

Startup Sales Slides Metrics 298

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

There was an explosion in number of startups both because it was cheap and there was tons of available capital. Specifically I mean teams that were going too fast at raising, optimizing around the highest price or avoiding larger investors because they wanted a lot of small players who couldn’t exert any control (terms, price, etc.).

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Capital Funding Seed Funding 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. They can help you with pricing. A great CFO can help you negotiate venture debt to extend your runway or cover these working capital timing issues. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up?

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

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. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. Be careful how you price this. Use before and after slides to hit home with investors.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2010

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Employees stop innovating.

Startup 57

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 57

Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The staff also crowed over Clinton’s tweet—a reaction last summer to the first revelations about Martin Shkreli’s price gouging —that sent biopharma stocks downhill. His slides are here. The hikes were first reported earlier this month by Adam Feuerstein of The Street.

Research 40

Research San Diego Report Slides 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This involves a person who leads a PowerPoint presentation in which the presenter feels more comfortable racing through pre-practiced slides and rattling off charts & bullet points than having a discussion. The VC might have tried a few times to prompt a discussion and you didn’t take the queue but in stead reverted back to slides.

Venture Capital 275

Venture Capital Sales Slides Startup 275

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. Roam & Wander won me over as soon in the same way that the packed room of investors uttered a unanimous ‘aww’ during their slide deck presentation.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The deck itself was produced by a committee of functional team lead who were asked to do 5–7 slides each for an update. Each section head reads his / her 5–7 slides. If you put up 5 slides on “what should we order for lunch today” the board will spend 30 minutes debating that. There are too many pages. It passes the weight test.

Startup 226

Startup Slides Metrics News 226

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It will affect your ability to get the right jobs and promotions as well as your ability to attract talent and capital. Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. ” Not technical.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Not everybody agrees that entrepreneurs should take investor meetings outside of “funding season&# when they’re raising capital. If you have beta customers, new pricing plans, different positioning, more market insights, good press coverage – whatever – these are all signs that the ball is moving forward.

Startup 360

Startup Venture Capital Invest Slides 360

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. Short answer: no. They also avoid Reg D. Rumored to be appox.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). This should not deter you. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20).

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

It eventually closed at 11,204 in April ’10 before sliding back around 10,000 as I sit here and type. The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. We took $2.3

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. M&A returned.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305