Develop Metrics Sales Slides 
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. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
I recommend a ten-slide pitch to start, reviewed by friends and advisors, to be expanded to a ten-to-twenty-page business plan with opportunity sizing, cost and price details, competitors, marketing and sales strategy, financial projections, and resources required. Make sure your solution is defensible and unique.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 2, 2015
What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. Here’s the dilemma. HR & Legal.
socalTECH
JULY 10, 2019
What we set out to do was develop something that we could use to solve that problem for ourselves, using personalized recommendation technology for food. The only thing we knew, is you sent around this set of slides which was supposed to convey what could bette rbe conveyed in conversation.
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 16, 2015
And when it comes to timing, wait until you’ve come up with a working prototype and developed your product before you seek external funding. Think of it as a business development process and plan for your raise to take up to 6 months. Use before and after slides to hit home with investors. Vendor funding. Thoughts on pitching?
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 9, 2014
About $37B worth of lost sales a year, worldwide. In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. Business Culture Development Entrepreneurship Events Investment Marketing Mobile Music Social Good Startups 500 Startups Dave McClure'
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
The deck itself was produced by a committee of functional team lead who were asked to do 5–7 slides each for an update. Each section head reads his / her 5–7 slides. If you put up 5 slides on “what should we order for lunch today” the board will spend 30 minutes debating that. There are too many pages. It passes the weight test.
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