Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. The full financial details and metrics were in the deck. HR & Legal.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

BigCo calls you to review your product and decides they want to use you. Let’s say you give a warrant to a channel partner to sell your product. Have minimums but a sliding scale. If they value your product / service they’ll buy it. If they don’t value your product / service they won’t.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 1, 2016

The most surefire way to raise money is to have a great team, build a great product and get meaningful traction. Forget Your Slides. Have your slides there, reference the key points as needed, but keep the focus on each other — not a slideshow. Demonstrate the potential of your product through 5-6 KPIs.

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Slides Startup Entrepreneur Metrics 49

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. So, we stopped our B-to-C product about a yaer ago, and since then have exclusively been licensing our technology.

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Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

If you have board members you respect you owe it to yourself to run more productive sessions where board members contribute. What you Before Sets the Course for How Well the Day Goes Make sure you send your financial and operating metrics no less than 72 hours before the board meeting — even better if it can be a week in advance.

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Guide Startup Metrics Conference 196

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

The internet has changed business – in helpful and challenging ways: * We have more information and metrics – and more confusion from all the clutter. * We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * Are we working harder, under more pressure, but running in place?

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Metrics Startup Slides Activity 66

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

The internet has changed business – in helpful and challenging ways: * We have more information and metrics – and more confusion from all the clutter. * We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * Are we working harder, under more pressure, but running in place?

Metrics 66

Metrics Slides Competition Activity 66

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

The internet has changed business – in helpful and challenging ways: * We have more information and metrics – and more confusion from all the clutter. * We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * Are we working harder, under more pressure, but running in place?

Metrics 66

Metrics Slides Competition Activity 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Of course there are scenarios where a written business plan is not critical, but I haven’t seen one yet where a well-written 15-page document, or at least a 10-slide pitch, is a negative. There is no substitute for knowing your customers first hand, and iterating on a minimum viable product to find the most marketable solution.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Writing Slides 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you buy into the argument that a strong board can actually help you then this post will lay out how to help you have more productive meetings by preparing properly in advance. The deck itself was produced by a committee of functional team lead who were asked to do 5–7 slides each for an update. There are too many pages.

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CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

The internet has changed business – in helpful and challenging ways: * We have more information and metrics – and more confusion from all the clutter. * We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * Are we working harder, under more pressure, but running in place?

Metrics 40

Metrics Slides Competition Activity 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

And when it comes to timing, wait until you’ve come up with a working prototype and developed your product before you seek external funding. This can be a great way to test your product and get customer feedback. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. Start with your fundraising end in mind.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Harnessing more energy from our grid by emphasizing efficiency, not increased factory and power production. In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. In turn, Ohmconnect incentivizes its users with direct payments.

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Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Though, it’s possible that some people were there because of the confusion, Reiss certainly pleased the crowd and kept them in their seats as his presentation with power point slides and funny pictures seemed more like a stand up improv than your typical business presentation. “It’s not just about websites.

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Social Media Design Los Angeles Media 101

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. If I see your alpha product then I can judge how it develops over time. I’m personally 70% management, 30% product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Competitor: Slide.

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