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. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If

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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?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. But “he didn’t have the budget to hire a developer until he had raised money!&#. He went out and found a developer and built a product. He looked stunned.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

If I see your alpha product then I can judge how it develops over time. If you have 2 developers and the next time I see you it’s a team of 6 with a new head of products I can see momentum. Because management is so important I always tell people to make the bio slide the first in your deck. I never feel that way.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. There are typically two types of microscopes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Employees stop innovating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Employees stop innovating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs who are looking to attract investors need to develop and pitch a plan -- preferably written -- that answers every potential investor question about your startup before it is asked. What is the business problem you are solving? Don’t degrade competitors, but use their specifics to highlight your advantages.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

What Noom got me to do was develop a plan for situations I would be in BEFORE I was in the situation. I developed a plan BEFORE going out of what I would tell friends of why I wasn’t going to be drinking, “I’m on a 30-day health kick” or something similar. I will pay the price on the scale in the morning but so be it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Employees stop innovating.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

By that time, I had figured out the cadence of pricing for hotel rooms, and had been traveling back and forth between LA and San Francisco for three or four days each week. Plus, prices were starting at $180. I was just starting out in mobile app development, and a friend of mine was just starting out as a VC at Greycroft.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. How this works: I try to set a price that feels like a fair balance between GRP and the company. In these cases we proactively offer to lead their next round of financing.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The staff also crowed over Clinton’s tweet—a reaction last summer to the first revelations about Martin Shkreli’s price gouging —that sent biopharma stocks downhill. His slides are here. The hikes were first reported earlier this month by Adam Feuerstein of The Street. .”

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. So I developed this standard line that I used for all employees. The stupid thing is we sort of believed it ourselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Develop a personal-engagement extraordinary service mentality. The days of mass production and commodity pricing as an asset are gone. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that numbers and text on a slide with a bar graph won’t. Good stories make us think and make us feel.

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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.]. Public-company tech investors creates competition in late-stage financings and these investors can afford to be less price sensitive if they choose. and hasn’t abated.

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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.”

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MAY 15, 2010

We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. AdReady – Develops software tools and management platform that assists content publishers and ad agencies with the creation of display ads. Short answer: no. They also avoid Reg D.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

Last week, Irvine-based Inspired Instruments (www.yourockguitar.com) announced a round of funding, saying that it has developed an electronic guitar which combines the game controller functionality for popular videogames like Rock Band and Guitar Hero with actual musical functionality. Our technology allows you to not play a wrong note.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

But I would argue that you can develop relationships with many advisers, mentors and VCs that will help with introductions for no equity. If your valuation is already too high then seek approval to let them invest at a price lower than the current value. It’s OK to have the advisor slide where you glance quickly over the names.

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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. Be careful how you price this. Use before and after slides to hit home with investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

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. Business Culture Development Entrepreneurship Events Investment Marketing Mobile Music Social Good Startups 500 Startups Dave McClure' Look out for this company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2010

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Employees stop innovating.

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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. We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. landing pages, etc.

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JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. Some will be quick to chalk about “personal branding” as gimmicky or manipulative. It is neither. ” Not technical. Not kidding.

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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. They can help you with pricing. What I used to do is pencil out my plans for the board deck and strategy topics and my CFO would then pull together the slides and analysis.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. then bought GeoCities for $3.6 They looked unstoppable.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). What went wrong? The Proof Is In The Revenue.

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