Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2017

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. This means writing at the level of an average newspaper story (about eighth-grade level). They help organize and prioritize multiple elements of a concept or plan. " Bullet points are good. It won’t work.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023. Founded in 2020 by two former Meta executives, Tome is a business-focused storytelling and presentation tool that leverages generative AI. Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 22, 2021

The theater has actually been largely unoccupied since 1988, which clearly meant even more work had to go into shining up the walls and making the grand old theater presentable for that modern retail vibe — not to mention a seismic upgrade to help make it more earthquake proof. Image Credits: Apple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2023

Here are some tips and rules of thumb to improve your odds and help you understand when a bank loan or line of credit is possible, and how to get it: Write a good business plan first. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

As a member of the local angel group Selection Committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Every startup needs both a business plan and an investor presentation, completed before you formally approach any investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Here are some tips and rules of thumb to improve your odds and help you understand when a bank loan or line of credit is possible, and how to get it: Write a good business plan first. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. These present a huge opportunity to take your first steps as an entrepreneur with minimal risk and maximal support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2021

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. This means writing at the level of an average newspaper story (about eighth-grade level). They help organize and prioritize multiple elements of a concept or plan. Simple straightforward language. It won’t work.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Miselu presented their first prototype, neiro, this year at SXSW for an early debut of what is to come from the company. Groesche got me intrigued with Miselu’s grand vision so I couldn’t help but ask him for a quick interview on the product: Tell us about presenting the product early at SXSW?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

I plan to write a series of posts on the topic. One goal I have is to help founders better figure out how to structure boards, how to communicate with boards and how to get the most out of boards. I’m open to lobbying via Twitter (I’m msuster ) which order to write them in and/or if you think I’m missing a topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Often partners like to bring along an analyst or associate both as a way to help train younger staff (it’s an apprentice business) and also to have somebody to follow up on action items. This is true whatever the reason the board observer is present. even though I know I’m going to p**s off a few friends by writing this.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. Poor thing had to write this parable and broadcast it through social media, just to get her point across.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

I often felt like it was a sort of Meeting Tourette’s Syndrome problem I had but when people present and move very slowly covering obvious ground and making no point the pressure in my builds and builds until I almost accidentally blurt out uncontrollably. This is a help in itself. This hit me over the head. Food in particular.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2012

Here are some tips and rules of thumb to improve your odds and help you understand when a bank loan or line of credit is possible, and how to get it: Write a good business plan first. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

The short answer is that you should have multiple versions of your “pitch deck” (a short, visual presentation in Keynote, PPT or similar and shared as a PDF) and each occasion has a specific goal. You want to develop a “narrative” that holds the readers attention and helps shape the company into context. The key is WHAT you send.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, instead of quick slide presentations, teams at Amazon write six-page memos to lay out ideas in narratives to be read in silence at the start of a meeting. It’s up to you to build that relationship by listening to their needs and concerns, and offering help where you can.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. Asking young companies with limited capital to pay to present to a group of potential investors is insane. 5 companies presented for 7-8 minutes each followed by Q&A.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2023

Stay rooted in the present. Write down five things you're grateful for each day before you start work, or before you leave the office at the end of the day, to retrain your brain to focus on the positive. These will also help you unleash the creative side. Keep track of your wins. Stay fit and rested.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I favor the more cautious approach, and would offer the following insights to help you make the right decisions: Join a startup or take a role in an existing business. Even if you are an introvert, you will find peers and experts in these groups to help, and your confidence will grow.

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Berkonomics

MAY 22, 2014

In most cases, those entrepreneurs choosing to raise capital using PPMs retain specialists (many of whom are lawyers) to write their PPMs – a rather expensive undertaking. Then, only after convincing these “unsophisticated” investors to sign up and write their checks, the entrepreneur may approach an angel or group of angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

handle things personally and be a leader that is present in times of crisis. But at the margin if there are things you can do to be compassionate about severance or medical benefits or helping people navigate government assistance?—?you If we know each other personally and you think I can help you please reach out.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 9, 2016

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. The cockroach’s first decision was to set up a clocking in attendance system.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

Pursue courses that encompass group dynamics, presentation skills, leadership and seeking understanding and compromise in contentious situations. Contrary to conventional wisdom, success as a millennial entrepreneur does not require that you become proficient in writing commercial-quality software code. Communication.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

These are people who can’t help but find fault with anything you present. and actually write it down so they see it) The ADD Director ?—?This I can’t help it. You need a non-executive board member who is your point person to help keep the meeting on track. Have a code word so they know when to help.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Few of your contacts will be willing to use their valuable social or political capital helping you with a sales effort, and you will definitely strain your relationship with the intermediary if not a close friend. After all, you have a paying relationship with these resources, and asking for help is not considered a daunting request.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Especially for entrepreneurs who have not built and sold companies before, and need this startup to be an attractive acquisition or IPO target in a few years, I can’t think of a better way to enlist outside experts and keep them motivated to help you meet the challenges of a startup. Lack commitment and trust in board recommendations.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 3, 2013

Presented by Codewars and Cross Campus , this monthly gathering has been organized to attract a mastermind of hackers to share ideas and write code. Hacker Zazen will kick off with pizza and beer followed by a brief presentation for a few Missions.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. We write and create our own content for the game. Gold Sponsor. .

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2010

The WebTV Workshop in Hollywood offers a month long course on creating your web series – from writing to promoting it. Founders Diahnna Nicole Baxter and Damian Pelliconne are very passionate about helping the creative producers, directors, writers and actors learn how to be successful in this field.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2019

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. This means writing at the level of an average newspaper story (about eighth-grade level). They help organize and prioritize multiple elements of a concept or plan. " Bullet points are good. It won’t work.

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Tips Entrepreneur Writing Content 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. These present a huge opportunity to take your first steps as an entrepreneur with minimal risk and maximal support.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For those not familiar with the writing process in Hollywood works, fill us in? We saw that there were a lot of talent discovery programs out there, such as screenwriting fellowships, labs, film festivals, workshops, and writing competitions. That's been our focus, on centralizing talent discovery on the platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months. My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Here are some tips and rules of thumb to improve your odds and help you understand when a bank loan or line of credit is possible, and how to get it: Write a good business plan first. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After logging into your account via Facebook API, the platform uses your date of birth as the core data to help you calendar all of your friend’s birthdays and discover other people around you who also celebrate your special day. Writing a wish list for birthday presents at 10 years-old is expected. At 26, not so much.

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