Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information. The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service.

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Funding Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 62

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. DataPop's product also creates landing pages, geo-targets offers, and uses pricing details, sales and promotions, product specs, and retail location information to tune those search marketing ads. READ MORE>>.

Yahoo 145

Yahoo Paid Search GRP Partners SoCalTech 145

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 9, 2013

Should you increase your burn rate by adding 2 senior hires who will help you ship faster or sell more but then have less time for fund raising? Or maybe their existence itself will help accelerate fund raising. By definition leaders make hard choices given incomplete information. Larry Page. Who the f**k knows?

Course 413

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information. The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Statistics Startup Social Media 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

So it’s no surprise that Bevy is announcing a $15 million fund-raising closed in the midst of the WFH era of the Covid-19 pandemic. The best businesses understand the difference and that communities are the single best advocates for others to buy your products. This had a dual purpose?—?the It’s the opposite of community.

Software 234

Software Startup Tool Platform 234

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us. What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

Google 127

Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. Does this look like a Facebook page, or is this a separate site?

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 126

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Few investors these days have the time or patience to read a full business plan, so a better way to catch their eye is with a tightly written and well formatted two-page executive summary. Current and past titles don’t convey this information. Professional investors look for the right people more than the right product.

Summary 101

Summary Patents Technical Review Competition 101

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. The more the three of us talked about it, the more interested we became in how epigenetics could inform human health and disease. What's the biggest challenge you've had in bringing this product to market? Let's talk about the recent funding round?

USC 100

USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2019

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Don’t be fooled by the informality. Fully prepare for the assault. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Better safe than sorry.

Slides 85

Slides Outsource Summary Conference 85

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? I hand out money.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Our first request of the journalist was an appeal for time to digest his information, determine its accuracy, respond to his claims and then the story was his to run with. We were 6 months away from our next fund raising cycle. And we have taken an even more aggressive stance in our product on this issue. So the story died.

Press 336

Press Blogging Journal News 336

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. I see too many investor pitches, and even executive summaries that ramble on for many pages without a clear message. Customers these days expect to find your information where they are, not where you are.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Another fine line companies are skating is with how much user information they make publicly available. Facebook is back in the fray on the privacy issue but this time it is more about how user information is displayed by third parties. Does it risk disclosing sensitive information that could affect their relationships?”

Blogging 328

Blogging Content Press Startup 328

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

You need to first create a compelling product. Compelling in the sense that you solve a real problem a target group of potential customers has with a product that is significantly better than the alternatives on that market. You need product / market fit. Product / market fit is everything. ” True. Spend it wisely.

Startup 401

Startup Custom Customer Technical Review 401

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. The platform can be divided into three products. One is the mobile app.

Mobile 197

Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. We create a page which starts at first rumor, and engages and supports those projects.

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. Do so at your peril.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I offer these pragmatic recommendations: Buffer your funding requirements. Consider both the money you need before funding, and the size of investor funding requests. Every new startup needs to fight the urge to get the product out, and then start selling it. You should buffer the first by 50%, and the second by 25%.

Tips 102

Tips Help Startup Blogging 102

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. Out of that 1,000 pages, only 5-10 ads tend to get clicks.

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do. That's compared to other financial products, which are designed for managing money, and just feel like work. There are three main components of the product.

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The ten companies selected for the programe are: • AccessDNA : – Think WebMD for genetic information.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

Lead with your two-page executive summary, be prepared to give a ten-slide investor presentation. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Don’t be fooled by the informality. angel entrepreneur funding investor startup venture capital' Fully prepare for the assault.

Startup 107

Startup Venture Capital Slides Outsource 107

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. Real-time information drives commerce. What does that mean?

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

While increasing funding for network-related upgrades and maintenance may not be an option for smaller businesses, they can leverage a more cost-effective network to reduce operating costs and free up revenue for other business-critical aspects of their business. Read More: Top Strategies to Reduce Network Cost. Slow Internet Speeds.

Networking 54

Networking Company Companies Organization 54

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. Out of that 1,000 pages, only 5-10 ads tend to get clicks.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285