Patents Product Sales Slides 
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 27, 2012
A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Solution product & technology. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Marketing, sales, and partners.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 19, 2010
A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Most advisors will tell you to write the business plan first (20-30 pages), then distill the key points into a set of Microsoft PowerPoint slides for standup presentations to potential investors. Solution product & technology.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 27, 2018
I’m still amazed at how many technical entrepreneurs don’t have a business pitch, and offer me their product pitch or product spec instead. I’m a technologist, so I always love to learn about the product, but every investor needs to make sure you have a business, as well as a product.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money. Any startup with no patents, trade secrets, or other secret sauce is very high risk today.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 10, 2011
A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Solution product & technology. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Marketing, sales, and partners.
socalTECH
JUNE 13, 2012
How do you go about getting a company product--and company--funded through crowdsourcing? First of all, tell us about what olloclip's products are? You can slide it onto the corner of your iPhone, or you can flip it over, and it you get a wide angle lens. Is it even possible, and what are the pitfalls involved? Patrick O'Neill.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2016
As a startup advisor and investor, I recommend a pitch deck with about 10 slides backed up with a written business plan of approximately 20 pages, both containing quantified answers to the following key questions. This is also the place to first mention patents and any other differentiators that put you ahead of competition.
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