Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. Let that ideal co-founder find you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Yet if your service is consulting, for example, real travel is required to deliver the product. Trade show and conference participation. Most young businesses with a new product plan to attend as many as ten shows or conferences per year across the country or around the world. Networking events with other entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2010

This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Don’t charge the hill until you are “ready.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). Yet I can assure you that people who are paranoid, or want to avoid all risks, won’t be happy as entrepreneurs, so it’s all about balancing the risk-reward scale. Build trust first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2019

This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Fully prepare for the assault.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link. I was wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. They are also driving down the margins they make and are offering products that are initially lower functionality than their competitors. Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster.

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Marketing Course Pricing Networking 361

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Don’t charge the hill until you are “ready.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. Investors expect energy, conviction, and commitment from entrepreneurs. It won’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2017

This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Don’t charge the hill until you are “ready.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? I am a VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. Obvious passion - Investors expect energy, conviction, and commitment from entrepreneurs.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. In the last six weeks, I have been pitched by five entrepreneurs under 20. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

Please join us for an evening of fun mingling with other startups, VCs, Angels, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts, as we host our first Startup Demo event in Los Angeles. StartupDemo ( www.startupdemo.com ) is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. to 11:00 p.m. startupdemo.

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Social Media Media Startup Mixergy 71

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Don’t charge the hill until you are “ready.”

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Slides Outsource Summary Conference 95

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! I like to tell entrepreneurs to treat it like a sales campaign. They just had some time and found your product interesting).

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

You can spread the word by attending conventions and conferences relating to your field of business. Create pages for your business on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and any other social sites that are used by potential customers. A good website allows you to sell your products and services online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The Venture Value Scorecard is a one-page summary of your company’s achievements and assets: the factors that contribute to the value of your organization. Products: You obviously can’t create value without a viable product (or service) to sell. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is. His website is [link].

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.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Second, how to get leads.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

You can visit the official event page here. Here in Los Angeles we've tied the entire conference together with the Twelethon , a creative fundraising platform in support of Inner-City Arts. We are TechZulu after all, so you know we could not do this post without some helpful event recommendations for startups and entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

In other words, we really want to take social shopping to the next level, and make it product focused. The concept is divided into 3 areas: myTibesti, where people can put up their favorite products, create wish lists, and where people can click on those items and buy them, we share 50 percent with our registered users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle. As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. Every industry organization has regular local meetings and annual conferences for education purposes and bringing the right people together.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. The bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. One story is, “Hey, maybe there’s something to this Google+ product?”. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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