Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring.

Mentor 154

Mentor Technical Review Coach Slides 154

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

It eventually closed at 11,204 in April ’10 before sliding back around 10,000 as I sit here and type. High unemployment, wage stagnation, lowering real estate prices and the lowering of demand for products may lead to deflation (where prices of goods & services decrease each month – i.e. the opposite of inflation).

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring.

Mentor 124

Mentor Technical Review Coach Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

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. Although the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t technically require a business plan, they do demand essentially the same information in a project format.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. Every good technologist should start with at least a single page business plan, or construct a “pitch deck” of maybe a dozen PowerPoint slides to cover all the important content.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

That's because employees who are facing individual fines for not having insurance will, in many cases, choose to buy it at the workplace, thereby increasing demand. 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

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring.

Product 99

Product Mentor Startup Technical Review 99

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. There are typically two types of microscopes. but internationally.

Tech Coast Angels 124

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

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. Although the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t technically require a business plan, they do demand essentially the same information in a project format.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. In addition, global scaling will likely require additional investors, who will demand to see real revenue and customer demand. Prepare a pitch deck to document and share your plan. Early pivots can be implemented here with minimal impact.

Funding 73

Funding Social Media Slides Platform 73

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. There are typically two types of microscopes. but internationally.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. On Demand Printing : great prices and quality when you need printed materials which, contrary to popular belief, are alive and well.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. Talk a bit about your funding, and how you got to it?

Pricing 113

Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

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. It's all about finding a place to stay, for people who don't need a concierge, don't need a view.

Startup 113

Startup Los Angeles Mobile Pricing 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.

Social Network 319

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 319

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

On the positive side, friends and family probably won’t be as demanding on your financial projections as a professional investor, and they likely will be satisfied with an initial offer of a convertible note (loan with option to convert to equity later), so you don’t have to give away the store before you get started.

Funding 60

Funding Startup Ideas Slides 60

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. But the economy grows in cycles and always has: Expansion & contraction. I’m paranoid about the evaporation of revenue.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

At the tail end of this period when demand was picking up for the industry there was still a belief that in venture it only mattered that you got into the top 10 funds in Silicon Valley. If you need the original keynote slides for any reason — just ask. We’re trying to limit our exposure.”

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Seed Funding Capital 286