Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

The “competition slide&# of your investment deck is such a great opportunity to talk about how you’re positioned (premium product vs. economical product? Here’s some thoughts on the competition slide and also how to talk about it: Competition. The Harvey Ball slide should in a way just be a depiction of this strategy.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Slides Competition Education 313

InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

Of course not. If you are forced to display financial data, ensure that the slides are unintelligible. An effective method to incite Death By PowerPoint is to deploy an extraordinary number of slides. A minimum of 20 to 30 slides per minute is a reasonable rule of thumb. Limit the use of pictures or graphs on your slides.

Slides 154

Slides Tips Startup Research 154

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2013

And of course, one of the products that were heavily discussed about was Google+. I therefore decided to put together a slide deck to explain why the smart talent may be a cause of the problem, some design flaws relating to usability and user experience, as well as a modified focus. Google+ is like the Bing for Microsoft.

Google 83

Google Slides Design Conference 83

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. Of course, decisions and action items must be communicated immediately, but individual disagreements, comments and recommendations must never surface around the water cooler or in later reviews.

Mentor 124

Mentor Technical Review Coach Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, instead of quick slide presentations, teams at Amazon write six-page memos to lay out ideas in narratives to be read in silence at the start of a meeting. Of course, to make this a culture, you have to overtly reward successes, and avoid negative penalties. Provide regular feedback on execution and results.

Coach 145

Coach Slides Social Network Metrics 145

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

So what are some of the key points that you should highlight in your investor slides to convince investors that you indeed do have a long-term competitive advantage over other alternatives in the marketplace? Non-specific terms, like better usability and low cost don’t incite customers to action these days.

Competition 166

Competition Funding Startup Patents 166

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

The more you are regularly checking in the more room for course correction or at a minimum the more bought in board members are because they participated in the process. Of course there are times where you do need consent and a vote to be made and these ought to be only the most strategic, existential questions of the company.

Startup 234

Startup Slides Venture Capital Course 234

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. Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. An abbreviated version of this post appeared yesterday on TechCrunch. “There’s something going on in LA.”

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren’t generally available: Basic Office Politics.

Class 93

Class Course Writing Slides 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Of course sentiment can swing wildly with new information but I set out to take the pulse of the market as we enter 2016. 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 And of course all of these factors are related.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Course Marketing 150

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. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. Many board meetings are bored meetings. It is a HUGE MF distraction.

Tips 212

Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

While it might be tempting to put everything you can into a slide presentation and tell the whole story, too much information could distract the investor and potentially lose your momentum. Try to keep the presentation tight, 10 slides is ideal,” Gruber said. Also keep the slides clean and easy to read. Final Thoughts.

Tips 70

Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Of course, building a plan is not an alternative to getting out there and doing something.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

Of course, it’s always good to speak with conviction, but marketing terms such as “improved productivity” or “lower cost” won’t make your offering memorable. It should be imbedded in the home page of your web site, the introduction section of your business plan, the heart of your executive summary, and the first slide of your investor pitch.

Sample 127

Sample Summary Startup Slides 127

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. Remember, investors are buying into the business, not the product.

Product 103

Product Slides Customer Custom 103

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

when every executive function attends a meeting and when each person has prepared “just” 5–10 slides the entire meetings becomes more of an update meeting and less of a strategic debate about the most critical issues affecting the company. The non-obvious reason is this?—?when

Startup 161

Startup Slides Ideas Guide 161

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. I said (out loud), “I sure wish that some of the time that went into these PowerPoint slides would have gone into meetings with the COO, CFO or CMO of [Elephant Customer].&# They move the ball forward every day. I was a bull in a china shop.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

So now you’ve got your key USPs written down and you’ve worked them into slide format to get them across to your prospects. And of course you also need your outbound marketing campaigns to emphasize your USPs so that prospects are already asking about them before the sales reps even start their meeting.

Sales 336

Sales Startup Competition Custom 336

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

Of course I’m not preaching crazy, irrational spend or having Kid Rock at your next company party. What if that time could go into thinking through the companies most important strategic issues, talking early with investors about their views and adjusting the strategic discussion slides rather than the update deck?

Startup 381

Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. Of course, decisions and action items must be communicated immediately, but individual disagreements, comments and recommendations must never surface around the water cooler or in later reviews.

Product 99

Product Mentor Startup Technical Review 99

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

The first was to do a 5 minute “ignite&# presentation – 5 minutes, 15 slides. I did the outline of the 15 slides on the flight over (after a few beers). I tried to visualize how I was going to hit such a precise presentation where you get 20 seconds per slide and then they get auto forwarded.

Slides 374

Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Certainly a slide or two needs to carry over describing the product and features at a high level. Of course, you wouldn’t include this data in your customer product pitch. Of course, investors want to see a positive return on their investment, with timeframes and growth expectations.

Product 58

Product Slides Entrepreneur Invest 58

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Of course, you will want to figure out a bit more about the specifics of what this developer needs to know vs. can learn. Of course, you are looking for something a little different - a technical Cofounder. I'm focusing on the sourcing ("lead gen" on her slide) aspect. Your technical advisor can likely help.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

Of course not. As per my video, think about the data in the following slide. We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. Is Facebook unstoppable? And a Final Note on Whether Silicon Valley Opportunities Remain.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

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. Dare I steer off the course from the tried-and-true PowerPoint ritual? Slides, please.” I thought, what would I do if I was trying to sell to a customer. I was wrong. This is going well.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins. Of course back then it literally was sold in a package and stored on a shelf! But the economy grows in cycles and always has: Expansion & contraction.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

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.]. Of course strongest industry players don’t stand still. Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Of course nobody really knows what the future of social networking is and anybody who claimed to know would be a shyster (yes, a little bit too close to my last name for comfort.). I have my basic slide decks complete but always happy to add, amend or ad-lib. Hope to see you!

CalTech 222

CalTech Startup Santa Monica Venture Capital 222

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. Of course, it has to be an outstanding product, otherwise you have a very tough road ahead of you. Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. There are typically two types of microscopes.

Tech Coast Angels 124

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Of course there are scenarios where a written business plan is not critical, but I haven’t seen one yet where a well-written 15-page document, or at least a 10-slide pitch, is a negative. Of course, building a plan is not an alternative to getting out there and doing something.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Technical Review Writing Slides 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s fair for you to ask for a few slides from each in advance, and make sure the overall story is complete and consistent. Of course, it’s always appropriate to concurrently and openly reverse the process on your potential investor. Update reference customers, partners, and vendors.

Invest 59

Invest Startup Doc Slides 59

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

And of course there was the Michael Porter’s “ 5 Forces.&# Frankly, I kind of found all of this stuff to be bullshit (bull shiitake?) People started to believe that there was real intellectual insight into the bullshit PowerPoint slides and customer surveys they were spitting out.

Startup 378

Startup Framework Slides Coach 378

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. Of course, it has to be an outstanding product, otherwise you have a very tough road ahead of you. Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. There are typically two types of microscopes.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 19, 2016

Many mistakes, of course, never reach the media but they can still harm the bottom line of your business. It’s possible to take a blog post and turn it into a slide show, infographic and video, for example. Hardly a week goes by without hearing about a scandal or faux pas made by a company on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

Social Media 56

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Content 56

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

So what are some of the key points that you should highlight in your investor slides to convince investors that you indeed do have a long-term competitive advantage over other alternatives in the marketplace? Non-specific terms, like better usability and low cost don’t incite customers to action these days.

Competition 93

Competition Startup Patents Slides 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

What you Before Sets the Course for How Well the Day Goes Make sure you send your financial and operating metrics no less than 72 hours before the board meeting — even better if it can be a week in advance. If you provide these slides in advance you give board members a chance to reflect and come prepared for a real discussion.

Guide 196

Guide Startup Metrics Conference 196

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Of course, building a plan is not an alternative to getting out there and doing something.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109