Berkonomics

APRIL 5, 2018

A typical beginning package for a small company costs about $4 thousand a year and covers several forms of liability for both premises and product as well as employee use of self-owned cars for work, theft, employee dishonesty and more. Either way, you have me to blame for one more of those exclusion pages that overwhelm such policies today.

Sites 266

Sites Outsource Development Customer Custom 266

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

TechZulu and Schmoozd have joined forces to bring you Startup Demo during Social Media Week. We are selecting 10 startups to demo during the event and the lucky chosen get to do so completely free! What: A Startup Demo event. If you have a startup you would like to showcase at Startup Demo please apply here. Price: FREE.

Social Media 71

Social Media Media Startup Mixergy 71

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.”

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Statistics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.”

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Technical Review Statistics Startup 119

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.”

Funding 62

Funding Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk. Can’t you just demo & talk? Demo could go here]. Progress to date of your company (when started, key milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot / beta customers, financing). Competition.

Venture Capital 340

Venture Capital Slides Doc Startup 340

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2019

Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. 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. Talk bounces off and won’t stop any bullets.

Slides 85

Slides Outsource Summary Conference 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

In that critical first minute, no one needs to hear that you have a passionate dream of changing the world, introducing new disruptive technology, or a product with more features than competitors. Focus on quantifiable and relevant specifics, such as “reduces your cost by 40 percent,” or “increases productivity by 50 percent.”

Sample 127

Sample Summary Startup Slides 127

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. The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

The bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. Stories have starts, middles and ends.

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. When I think about the people in our generation I most respect: Elon Musk, Larry Page, Richard Branson – they are optimists to a fault. It was really gratifying to read Larry Page’s interview in the FT this past week.

Technical Review 417

Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2012

An Executive Summary is a one page elevator pitch of the whole plan (may be separate from the plan), which gives an investor a net perspective on the key business parameters. The base plan should be in the 20-page range. Making the total plan heavier, with ten appendices, or a hundred pages is not impressive.

Summary 97

Summary Technical Review .Net Ideas 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2017

Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. 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. Talk bounces off and won’t stop any bullets.

Funding 60

Funding Slides Outsource Summary 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. 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. Talk bounces off and won’t stop any bullets.

Startup 107

Startup Venture Capital Slides Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

An Executive Summary is a one page elevator pitch of the whole plan (may be separate from the plan), which gives an investor a net perspective on the key business parameters. The base plan should be in the 20-page range. Making the total plan heavier, with ten appendices, or a hundred pages is not impressive. Don’t be negative.

Summary 97

Summary Technical Review .Net Ideas 97

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Why tell someone about your product if you can give them a demonstration, and what better way to make that demonstration irresistible than to make it free? novarad.net place their free demo button above the fold and make it as visible as possible. Sites like ww1.novarad.net Site Speed . Value Proposition.

Sites 40

Sites Search Engine Optimization Technical Review Web Development 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. Among those is accessibility of the product.

Design 174

Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product. Yet these seem to be the least effective attributes of banner advertising.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. 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. Talk bounces off and won’t stop any bullets.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Slides Outsource Summary 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? Should we increase home page take-overs to 4x / day?

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2010

A typical beginning package for a small company costs about $4 thousand a year, and covers a number of forms of liability both premises and product as well as employee use of self-owned cars for work, theft, employee dishonesty and more. And the first backup from the night before was blank. As I recall, the year was 1987.

Sites 149

Sites Outsource Development Email Customer 149

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. 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. Talk bounces off and won’t stop any bullets.

Slides 95

Slides Outsource Summary Conference 95

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

Startup 333

Startup Class Conference Product 333

Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

This tool is suitable for organizations that want to capture high-quality leads from among their website visitors — be it for capturing consulting inquiries, demo requests, or webinar signups. It integrates with 600+ customer relationship management systems (CRMs), marketing automation tools, and landing page builders.

Tool 79

Tool Startup Help Template 79

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Solution product & technology. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs.

Slides 99

Slides Competition Sample Sales 99

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2010

Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. 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. Talk bounces off and won’t stop any bullets.

Entrepreneur 86

Entrepreneur Slides Outsource Summary 86

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

As a member of the local angel group Selection Committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Solution product & technology. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs.

Slides 94

Slides Competition Sample Sales 94

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The night’s events began with a gaming panel, followed by mixer that included food and drink, gadget demos, as well as Twitter raffle that included a vast selection of prizes that amounted to more than $6,000 in value. Inside Sony had a “booth” showing off their latest Vaio products for people to test and preview.

Lootcrate 80

Lootcrate S3 Education Activision 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Last Friday was the final deadline for all StartupDemo applications to be submitted and we are hard at work selecting the best Startups to Demo during the event. You may go to the Signup page and signup for sponsorship or for special arrangements contact sponsor@startupdemo.com. What: A Startup Demo event. to 11:00 p.m.

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

You’ve got 20 slides and we’re only on page 3. Can we do a really quick run through your deck so that we save tons of time for a product demo & questions at the end?&#. A perfect meeting gets through the deck quickly, demos a product and still has tons of time for discussion. Dude, I get it.

Slides 358

Slides Venture Capital Startup Summary 358

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Solution product & technology. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs.

Slides 93

Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers. Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. And of course we had, TheMan.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276