Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.”

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Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2015

The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?” Research your audience before presenting.

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Slides Technical Review Startup Research 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2012

The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?” Research your audience before presenting.

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Tips Slides Technical Review Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2011

The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. I outlined what investors expect to see in an earlier article “ Ten Slides Make a Killer Investor Presentation.” Research your audience before presenting.

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Slides Technical Review Startup Research 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2010

The average length of a funding pitch to investors is ten minutes. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. I outlined what investors expect to see in an earlier article “ Investor Presentation – 10 Slides is Just Right.” Research your audience before presenting.

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Tips Slides Startup Research 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

At any rate, here is my summary of the top ten from my experience with hundreds of elevator pitches, business plans, and executive presentations: “ Our product is truly disruptive technology. ” No investor wants to wait that long for his return, or fund the years of waiting. A world-class CEO will be joining us after the funding event.”

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Innocal Entrepreneur Competition IBM 96

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The 3-6 month program had several hundred applications from all over the country and abroad vying for the chance of $21,000 in initial funding, office space, mentorship, and collaboration opportunities with other startups. The 10 startups presented a mix of innovation for consumers and enterprise with some sure to please twists.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ABSA Jewish Entrepreneur of the Year – WINNER (This award was actually presented by Gill Marcus) – (Annex.13). We actually enable banks to attract new customers as well as securely port their services to existing users, using our patent pending social fraud algorithms. African ICT Achiever Awards – OVERALL WINNER (Annex.13).

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. I Be specific. It's a great talk. they released a new 2.0

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

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