socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. In reality, they need a separate pitch about the business, carrying over only a slide or two about the solution. Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. There are typically two types of microscopes.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Crowd Gathers for San Diego Tech Coast Angels “Quick Pitch” Competition.

Tech Coast Angels 40

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs who are looking to attract investors need to develop and pitch a plan -- preferably written -- that answers every potential investor question about your startup before it is asked. This is also the place to first mention patents and any other differentiators that put you ahead of competition.

Invest 108

Invest Startup Slides Equity 108

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. This approach generally works well with customers because I find it much easier to build rapport when we talk like humans than when we all stare at the PowerPoint slides being projected on the wall.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There are a lot of other competition shows and reality show, which are much more predatory and cut-throat, and it's nice for our entrepreneurs to not only get a real investment, but get great feedback. If you have one of the products that can neatly slide into one of their category groups, they will be really popular.

Startup 100

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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. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. Don’t count on your IP to save you.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

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. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. Don’t count on your IP to save you.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. We’re all socially connected (so great businesses spread faster).

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

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. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. Don’t count on your IP to save you.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 95

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. They often aren’t great at planning development work. They should be setting the standards for how code is developed. For me the inflection point is usually when you have 5+ developers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

And when it comes to timing, wait until you’ve come up with a working prototype and developed your product before you seek external funding. There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Think of it as a business development process and plan for your raise to take up to 6 months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Seed-round investment. Super-angel investors (micro-VCs). Deep-dive meeting.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. Two of the developers that were going to join me decided to continue on with their idea since they already had a team. There were a few things that made building the team difficult. The Code Wars Team.

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Startup Technical Advisors Ideas USC 99

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Despite the growing competition, Philips Hue light bulbs are still the kings of all smart, Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs. Sliding left or right changes the brightness. This is a really simple app to operate—just point it at the screen and a sliding navigation bar pops out asking which lights you want to change. Hue Widget ($0.99)

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

—The hepatitis C drug telaprevir (Incivek) from Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX ) was once the fastest drug launch in history before competition wiped it off the map in three years. His slides are here. Wait til you get a load of this week’s roundup. TOP STORIES. THE REGULATORS’ THUMBS GO UP AND DOWN.

Research 40

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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. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. Don’t count on your IP to save you.

Startup 57

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 57

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * The brute force methods that used to work so well, such as “work harder,&# “hire more,&# “spend more&# aren’t true strategic or competitive advantages. Anyone can work hard, hire people and raise more money.

Metrics 66

Metrics Slides Competition Activity 66

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * The brute force methods that used to work so well, such as “work harder,&# “hire more,&# “spend more&# aren’t true strategic or competitive advantages. Anyone can work hard, hire people and raise more money.

Metrics 66

Metrics Slides Competition Activity 66

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Lots of thoughts here. You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

So I developed this standard line that I used for all employees. Join because you know you’ll be earning less than you could elsewhere at some meaningless job cranking out non-core code, producing Powerpoint slides or shuffling paper. rounds and still be competitive. We’re a meritocracy. You can always earn more.

Startup 294

Startup Sales Venture Capital Slides 294

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Lots of thoughts here. You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Another impetus for this was I saw some of the slides that Mary Meeker had done in the Kleiner Perkins annual PDF that they send around, and I realized that the market was being underserved by Airbnb and other key players in the market. From there, I was working at a starrtup here. We ended up at some point becoming a Pinterest for video.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * The brute force methods that used to work so well, such as “work harder,&# “hire more,&# “spend more&# aren’t true strategic or competitive advantages. Anyone can work hard, hire people and raise more money.

Metrics 66

Metrics Startup Slides Activity 66

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * The brute force methods that used to work so well, such as “work harder,&# “hire more,&# “spend more&# aren’t true strategic or competitive advantages. Anyone can work hard, hire people and raise more money.

Metrics 40

Metrics Slides Competition Activity 40

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 is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. Initially I thought it was too long of a name for a blog.When I looked at the competition it as AVC.com and Feld.com. It is neither.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

I faced the same challenge not being able to form a team because most people joined the competition with friends that they had already planned on working with. So, I teamed up with a group of developers that showed interest in working on my idea after the weekend.

Startup 100

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. The loyalties that develop during that time are strong and hard to break.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

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.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. -New

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). What went wrong? The Proof Is In The Revenue.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175