article thumbnail

Equity Investment Platform Preparation Best Practices

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend an easier way – using an investment platform like Gust, EquityNet or SeedInvest. Another advantage of online investor and equity crowdfunding platforms is that they will force you to pull together your story and documentation in a more consistent and complete fashion than you might otherwise bother.

article thumbnail

How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. “Here’s how you upload a document.

article thumbnail

Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. User experience is suffering and it’s the worst possible time with the product taking off.

Web 200