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. We got first place in that competition, and they followed up with a $2M investment in the form of a convertible note. There are typically two types of microscopes.

Tech Coast Angels 124

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

As a startup advisor and investor, I recommend a pitch deck with about 10 slides backed up with a written business plan of approximately 20 pages, both containing quantified answers to the following key questions. 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

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. We got first place in that competition, and they followed up with a $2M investment in the form of a convertible note. 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. 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. Your income drops.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

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

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. Your income drops.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Certainly a slide or two needs to carry over describing the product and features at a high level. Business model showing costs, pricing, and margins. Intellectual property and sustainable competitive advantage. In reality, there isn’t much overlap between the business pitch I expect, versus a product pitch.

Product 58

Product Slides Entrepreneur Invest 58

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. Your income drops.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 95

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

By that time, I had figured out the cadence of pricing for hotel rooms, and had been traveling back and forth between LA and San Francisco for three or four days each week. Plus, prices were starting at $180. We're only competitive in that and the end of they day, you're figuring out where you will lay your head down at night.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mobile Pricing 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. rounds and still be competitive. I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake.

Startup 294

Startup Sales Venture Capital Slides 294

Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

As a consequence, small businesses should be able to get competitive insurance plans and better pricing. After the 2014 tax year, smaller businesses purchasing insurance through a state exchange will receive a credit for as much as 50% of their contributions, also on a sliding scale.

Slides 100

Slides Startup Study Resource 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Be careful how you price this. There’s always competition, even if it’s unrelated alternatives for your customer’s time and money, so don’t try to gloss over this aspect. Use before and after slides to hit home with investors.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

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. TOP STORIES.

Research 40

Research San Diego Report Slides 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. 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. Your income drops.

Startup 57

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 57

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. If I spoke at events about the dangers of raising too much money or setting your price to high it was no longer as the entrepreneur who had made both mistakes it was as the self-interested, only-saying-it-because-I’m-a-VC guy. ” Not technical.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. It’s good fun to create something as scaled down as 20 slides at 20 seconds each. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175