Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

That has allowed the company to launch in many markets, build amazing applications, design future versions of the scooter and monetize while many companies are still just drawing up their go-to-market plans. You can expect some strong competition, but it’s unlikely that there will be 5 great scooter companies.

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

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. Competition – which competitors will prove to be the most formidable?

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Ideas Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 69

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

Here is a summary, with some of the pros and cons or special considerations for each: Product or service is free, revenue from ads and critical mass. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, some with high markups and some with low, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers.

Pricing 112

Pricing Competition Customer Custom 112

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Having a defensible competitive advantage or “barrier to entry” is another critical step to funding, and another common stumbling block during all phases of the funding process. Build an investor presentation and summary. Start early on this one, or you will lose the opportunity. Build a prototype product.

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Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. Make the repayment terms as clear as possible at either the beginning or end of the Executive Summary. They will likely only read your plan’s Executive Summary – at first.

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Writing Summary Ideas Research 97

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Having a defensible competitive advantage or “barrier to entry” is another critical step to funding, and another common stumbling block during all phases of the funding process. Build an investor presentation and summary. Start early on this one, or you will lose the opportunity. Build a prototype product.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

Here is a summary, with some of the pros and cons or special considerations for each: Product or service is free, revenue from ads. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. Tiered or volume pricing.

Startup 114

Startup Pricing Customer Custom 114

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Here is a summary, with some of the pros and cons or special considerations for each: Product or service is free, revenue from ads and critical mass. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, some with high markups and some with low, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers.

Pricing 98

Pricing Product Startup Competition 98

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary. Amount of funding provided is usually not enough. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market.

Funding 101

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

Here is a summary, with some of the pros and cons or special considerations for each: Product or service is free, revenue from ads. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. Tiered or volume pricing.

Pricing 116

Pricing Product Customer Custom 116

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Having a defensible competitive advantage or “barrier to entry” is another critical step to funding, and another common stumbling block during all phases of the funding process. Build an investor presentation and summary. Start early on this one, or you will lose the opportunity. Build a prototype product.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary. Amount of funding provided is usually not enough. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market.

Funding 106

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As an experienced business advisor, here is my current summary, with some of the pros and cons or special considerations for each: Product is free, revenue is from advertisers. It is a very competitive approach, but requires design and development effort for value at every level. Low entry price, with priced features additional.

Pricing 66

Pricing Customer Custom Advertising 66

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Revenue is Not Revenue is Not Revenue. For example, look at the following graph.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 56

Marketing SEM Blogging Design 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2011

When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary. Amount of funding provided is very small. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market. Marty Zwilling.

Funding 92

Funding Startup Social Media Sample 92

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

This helps to add some constraints to the design process as everyone has a clear idea of what the product isn’t. Design as an afterthought Mistakenly, many early-stage startups often don’t see value in investing in design early on, believing it is a luxury which can be bolted on later like some kind of magic stardust.

Startup 78

Startup Design Customer Custom 78

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. In summary. new features need to be rolled into PR strategies and competitor analyses. -

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CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Designate a point person to handle the relationships. Build your financial model from the bottom-up showing what your average sale looks like and how it feeds into your top level summary financial picture. Thoughts on pitching?

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. Twiistup 6 featured 12 showoff companies as the opening act of a 2-day conference.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Summary notes, as always, provide below. I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. It was a pleasure to write them myself.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2010

When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary. Amount of funding provided is very small. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market. Marty Zwilling.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Social Media Sample 59

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” ” Answer: As long as you have scheduled for the design phase. Design with no constraints becomes a research project. Not funny, “ha, ha” but pretty apropos. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

Software 344

Software Startup Design Course 344

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers. Give credit.

Startup 95

Startup Coach Mentor Social Media 95

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers. Give credit.

Marketing 130

Marketing Develop Development Startup 130

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. Financial capital – revenue, equity, debt, funding.

Resource 131

Resource Startup Capital Mentor 131

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. When I was reading the Fab.com website I noticed that the CEO refers to Fab’s “one thing” as being design. They’re the place focused on design. They think design wins.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close. The best ones are visual, high-level, have a narrative, move swiftly, are designed to prompt questions as much as “pitch&# your company and importantly have a narrative. Competition. What should be in the deck? Details on the solution.

Venture Capital 340

Venture Capital Slides Doc Startup 340

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I just saw a good summary of how to motivate and train your team to accomplish this in a new book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. Team members need time, and your support, to attend conferences and professional organizations to stay in touch with colleagues and peers. Give credit.

Marketing 89

Marketing Coach Mentor Social Media 89

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Eric espouses designing products with the smallest set of features to please a customer base, and moving products into the marketplace quickly to test reaction, then iterating. Pivots come in many different flavors, each designed to test the viability of a different hypothesis about the product, business model, and engine of growth.

Course 109

Course Startup Platform Entrepreneur 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Eric espouses designing products with the smallest set of features to please a customer base, and moving products into the marketplace quickly to test reaction, then iterating. Pivots come in many different flavors, each designed to test the viability of a different hypothesis about the product, business model, and engine of growth.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Platform Customer 102

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. Why Invest? Think about Snapchat.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

. – Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Relaxing 2.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I just completed a new book on this challenge, “ Disrupt-It-Yourself ,” by Simone Bhan Ahuja, which includes a great summary of the required attributes to maximize your success potential in this area. It starts with a mindset that disrupting your business regularly is necessary, before your competition and new startups do it to you.

Company 93

Company Companies Software Review IBM 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. In summary: I know that it’s trendy to espouse the virtues of distributed teams. And from all the office chatter come norms and beliefs.

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335