Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The campaign will help Deka create custom 3D printed headsets and launch a number of stylish designs and colors. For $299 you get five Deka Slide Caps, while for $499 you get a Deka Slide Cap with 10 Deka Bluetooth Headsets PLUS One custom design Deka Slide Caps of a design of your choosing.

Customer 89

Customer Custom Slides Design 89

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. I also wrote an entire series on the topic of Startup Boards if you want to do any more reading that link has several articles you can dig into. How Do Boards Get Out of Sync?

Startup 234

Startup Slides Venture Capital Course 234

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

I think this is a perfect way to think about the world when you’re designing your product / company. Quite honestly I see way too many company pitches that are designed for Techies but I only want to invest in products designed for Normals. I covered this a bit in my post about the market definition slide in fund raising.

Product 348

Product Startup Design Blogging 348

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. Chamillionaire has a way more refined sense of what customer behavior is like than most ivy league graduates with nice Powerpoint slides that I meet.

Conference 150

Conference Slides Social Media Summary 150

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 17, 2011

As he lowers his loupe for a moment and glances up from his slides, he suddenly notices a flash of brown amidst all the white outside his window. He can do little more than shake his head and smile when he sees the word Macintosh printed on its side, along with its signature design. A UPS truck is pulling up in front of his studio.

Slides 164

Slides Blogging Writing Demand 164

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Having a defensible barrier to entry is a clear advantage to attracting investors, and another element that cannot be added after your design is made public. Prepare a slide deck to highlight product and business. File a provisional patent or other intellectual property. Recruit a team with complementary skills.

Platform 94

Platform Equity Invest Technical Advisors 94

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

You can slide it onto the corner of your iPhone, or you can flip it over, and it you get a wide angle lens. I had probably spent eight months perfecting the product, and getting the design where it needed to be, and all patents filed. First of all, tell us about what olloclip's products are? Unscrew that, and you get a macro lens.

Patents 191

Patents Ideas Design Startup 191

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2013

So it is a no-brainer that AT&T would slide through to spread love to the developer community here. The AT&T Developer Program, along with SEMA Development has designed this hack to be attended by both technical and non-technical social good enthusiast.

Slides 65

Slides Design Mobile Ideas 65

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Though, it’s possible that some people were there because of the confusion, Reiss certainly pleased the crowd and kept them in their seats as his presentation with power point slides and funny pictures seemed more like a stand up improv than your typical business presentation. Reiss sees UX as something that has been done before.

Social Media 101

Social Media Design Los Angeles Media 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When most people think of training , the first thing that comes to mind is a mandatory meeting in a stuffy conference room with a boring instructor walking through poorly designed slides. Make it learner-centric. Why should an employee take this training?

Training 48

Training Writing Conference Slides 48

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

But if you want to level things up, you can use a platform like OptinMonster to create popup forms, sliding forms, floating bars, and sidebars. This means paying attention to factors such as page loading speed, web copy, and design. It’s basically the only thing you need to make future design and layout changes on your site.

Tool 39

Tool Customer Custom Sites 39

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. I was only able to create a team with non-technical business people and a designer. The biz dev finished out the power point slides and tech kept adding more and more to the features.

Startup 99

Startup Technical Advisors Ideas USC 99

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I'm focusing on the sourcing ("lead gen" on her slide) aspect. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder A great post by Elizabeth Knopf , FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder where she breaks down the process much like how you think about a sales process.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Business owners have been asking a lot of questions about the new rules; these answers are designed to provide some clarity around a complex topic. 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

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. And here is your moment of zen … the full deck with many additional slides. An abbreviated version of this post appeared yesterday on TechCrunch. “There’s something going on in LA.”

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

What happens with gamers, is their music experience is one where they found good immediately, where they can look like rock stars, slide around on the floor, hold the guitar up in the air, etc. with human interface design, you can't change everything at once. Our technology allows you to not play a wrong note.

Orange County 244

Orange County Startup Slides Paramount 244

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

If you are interested in obtaining the slide decks from the past “Intro to the LA Startup Community” events, you can do so here. The event is meant to provide attendees with actionable steps to take to transition into the LA tech scene. The post Intro to the LA Startup Scene appeared first on TechZulu.

Rustic Canyon 74

Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

A conundrum for many frustrated entrepreneurs is that they need money from investors to design and build a prototype product, yet most Angel investors expect to see at least a prototype before they invest. Use your own money or friends and family to demonstrate progress early. Build an investor presentation and summary.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

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. I joined Chill.com, with Brian Norgard and those guys, and did a lot of the design at Chill.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mobile Pricing 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. Still, I believe I’m offering an accurate representation of the ideal configuration of the main technology leaders.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Sliding left or right changes the brightness. Designed exclusively to use from the slide down notification center on the iPhone, Hue Widget lets you access a broad range of Hue controls without having to unlock your phone. Simply press the light or group of lights to turn on or off, or long press for a color wheel.

Screening 40

Screening Slides Startup Press 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A conundrum for many frustrated entrepreneurs is that they need money from investors to design and build a prototype product, yet most angel investors expect to see at least a prototype before they invest. Use your own money or friends and family to demonstrate progress early. Build an investor presentation and summary.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. I told her I wasn’t yet convinced that she’d make a good: product manager, designer, sales person, leader, CEO. ” Not technical.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The money slide is the graphic below. As an example of how dumb they were (for those that don’t remember) whenever you changed one field in a browser-designed program the entire screen had to refresh. Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

A conundrum for many frustrated entrepreneurs is that they need money from investors to design and build a prototype product, yet most angel investors expect to see at least a prototype before they invest. Use your own money or friends and family to demonstrate progress early. Build an investor presentation and summary.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. Because they’re street smart, most great entrepreneurs tend to prefer getting out and talking with real customers rather than sitting in a cubicle all day doing beautiful PowerPoint slides.

Entrepreneur 306

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Customer 306

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Their solution is ingenius in its design. Roam & Wander won me over as soon in the same way that the packed room of investors uttered a unanimous ‘aww’ during their slide deck presentation. through organic interactions from the community.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

Initially that means a creative, collaborative toolset for visual communications, allowing users to develop really compelling slides, print materials or social media posts that are more visually compelling and easier-to-build for those who aren’t naturally gifted as visual story tellers. What are some examples?

Startup 191

Startup Social Media Slides Design 191

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

Designate a point person to handle the relationships. Use before and after slides to hit home with investors. Angels (invest their own money) and super angels. These usually come into play at the seed stage. If you’re raising funds from angels you’ll likely need to get investments from several different players. Thoughts on pitching?

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

RED FLAG #2 : This person came in saying he was a designer, disappeared for a few hours and said he was working on some iOS mockups but by the time we were ready to pitch, he delivered nothing. When I was creating the slide to introduce the team, he asked to be listed as an iOS developer instead of a designer as he was registered.

Startup 100

Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

Remember that most people are visual thinkers and Powerpoint slides simply help frame the conversations. The best ones are visual, high-level, have a narrative, move swiftly, are designed to prompt questions as much as “pitch&# your company and importantly have a narrative. What should be in the deck?

Venture Capital 340

Venture Capital Slides Doc Startup 340

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. I started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. Don Norman at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , June 21, 2010 Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide. Stylish visualisations, tons of data.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

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. As a hardware designer, I’m sure you do the same thing as you document your product specifications and pass them on to other members of your team for implementation.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. It was like nobody would give me any respect and they just saw me as the guy who goes and talks to senior people who does PowerPoint slides. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed. It was all technical.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. Many people are visual thinkers. No matter.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356