Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 26, 2010
Because if you’re truly that early / novel there’s a good chance that you’re too early and will spend lots of time / money educating the market. The “competition slide&# of your investment deck is such a great opportunity to talk about how you’re positioned (premium product vs. economical product?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Competitor: Slide. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform. Online text book rental service. Total raised: $129.0mm.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. This approach generally works well with customers because I find it much easier to build rapport when we talk like humans than when we all stare at the PowerPoint slides being projected on the wall.
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. The good news is there's a better way -- and it can usually be accomplished with the same amount of time and resources as a "stand and deliver" training.
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 9, 2014
We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 19, 2011
The money slide is the graphic below. I have some educated guesses. The surest sign of a market inefficiency is when solutions emerge to help developers get around the bottlenecks of platform development. Developers are now able to build apps in native languages such as Javascript or HTML5 that can run in multiple platforms.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 28, 2012
Nathan, pitched Code Wars as a platform for developers/coders to test their skills against each other and get ranked in what would be an impromptu micro-hackathon. The biz dev finished out the power point slides and tech kept adding more and more to the features. To my surprise, it was Nathan’s team that he was joining.
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