SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

There''s been a revolution in the last few years with the dropping price and increasing accessibility of 3D printers--those devices which let you print practically anything using just your own personal computer, 3D software, and a special printer. It dawned on me that I could, with 3D printing.

Startup 241

Startup Slides Orange County Design 241

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

Specifically I mean teams that were going too fast at raising, optimizing around the highest price or avoiding larger investors because they wanted a lot of small players who couldn’t exert any control (terms, price, etc.). The largest fund saw this as an opportunity to drive down price since they felt they overpaid in the last round.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Funding Seed Funding 271

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

It eventually closed at 11,204 in April ’10 before sliding back around 10,000 as I sit here and type. The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. We took $2.3

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The deck itself was produced by a committee of functional team lead who were asked to do 5–7 slides each for an update. Each section head reads his / her 5–7 slides. If you put up 5 slides on “what should we order for lunch today” the board will spend 30 minutes debating that. There are too many pages. It passes the weight test.

Startup 226

Startup Slides Metrics News 226

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. Options are gravy - I lived through the first dot com era where we used stock options as a recruiting tool. We’re a meritocracy.

Startup 294

Startup Sales Venture Capital Slides 294

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

A “warrant&# is a right, but not an obligation for a company to buy stock in your company at a future date and at a pre-agreed price. Have minimums but a sliding scale. If 1% of your stock for year one equals 50,000 shares then you might give 10,000 shares when they hit $50,000 in sales and a sliding scale between $50k-$200k.

Startup 298

Startup Sales Slides Metrics 298

Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have seen dramatic but volatile price surges during the past year. But this month their billions in estimated market value are eroding , amid widening suspicions against one trading platform, a half-billion-dollar heist from another exchange, and an awakened global regulatory community.

Slides 61

Slides Research Pricing Platform 61

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. In You Rock mode, it will map away all the wrong notes, so as you slide down the fretboard, you still sound good.

Orange County 244

Orange County Startup Slides Paramount 244

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. Once you prepare the deck each department that contributed slides feels compelled to get it’s half hour of time presenting their progress.

Tips 212

Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. M&A returned.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. . - When you see a big round that is announced, does it mean that they really raised all this money? Short answer: no. They also avoid Reg D.

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 286

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

this seems like amongst the most valuable investment available because it’s not necessarily fully priced like a public-market investment. Here are some simple slides that outline the point: a. If you get into a high-growth company and you have asymmetric information on how the management team is performing?—?this Want some context?

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital Capital Startup Funding 292

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. And here is your moment of zen … the full deck with many additional slides. An abbreviated version of this post appeared yesterday on TechCrunch. “There’s something going on in LA.”

Entrepreneur 378

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 378

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

I was horrified, because I had all these people sending me money -- so I doubled the price, because I didn''t know what else to do. In three weeks, I have a 300-order backlog, so I doubled the price again.". I''m not hiding behind any slides. So, I took an afternoon and that''s literally what it took to put it together.

Startup 223

Startup Yahoo Santa Barbara Slides 223

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

All of these are competitors in terms of speed, price, or luxury. So what are some of the key points that you should highlight in your investor slides to convince investors that you indeed do have a long-term competitive advantage over other alternatives in the marketplace?

Competition 166

Competition Funding Startup Patents 166

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

One of the biggest mistakes I see at board meetings is what I call the “filibuster board” in which the executive team spends 2 hours going through 100 slides and runs out the clock with no discussion. What Should We Talk About at Board Meetings?

Startup 234

Startup Slides Venture Capital Course 234

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2021

The days of mass production and commodity pricing as an asset are gone. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that numbers and text on a slide with a bar graph won’t. The result is a win-win situation, with more profits for the business, satisfied customers, and happy employees at all levels.

Customer 140

Customer Custom Slides Commerce 140

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. In reality, they need a separate pitch about the business, carrying over only a slide or two about the solution. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If

Product 103

Product Slides Customer Custom 103

The Quigley Report

MARCH 4, 2008

These firms most definitely do look at public stock market valuations as a measure of how to price a private company. The tightening of valuations for later stage financings (particulary the mezzanine or last round before going public) is having a cascading effect on the pricing for earlier rounds. And guess what?

Startup 40

Startup Slides Marketing Clearstone 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

They can help you with pricing. What I used to do is pencil out my plans for the board deck and strategy topics and my CFO would then pull together the slides and analysis. They can show the projections on what this does to burn rate. They can help you understand gross margins and how to avoid signing bad deals.

Outsource Development 339

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 339

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. If I spoke at events about the dangers of raising too much money or setting your price to high it was no longer as the entrepreneur who had made both mistakes it was as the self-interested, only-saying-it-because-I’m-a-VC guy. ” Not technical.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

If you stop measuring when you’re having a bad day, week, month you’ll slide back to your yo-yo weight. I will pay the price on the scale in the morning but so be it. There’s a term for this?—?an an “accountability coach” (or accountability friend). You manage what you measure. What About Exercise? Yes, I exercise a lot.

Startup 526

Startup Course Writing Help 526

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I recommend a ten-slide pitch to start, reviewed by friends and advisors, to be expanded to a ten-to-twenty-page business plan with opportunity sizing, cost and price details, competitors, marketing and sales strategy, financial projections, and resources required. Make sure your solution is defensible and unique.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The days of mass production and commodity pricing as an asset are gone. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that numbers and text on a slide with a bar graph won’t. The result is a win-win situation, with more profits for the business, satisfied customers, and happy employees at all levels.

Commerce 109

Commerce Slides Customer Custom 109

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I put up this slide as part of my discussion. One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Slides Capital Funding 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2011

They are ready to pay the price. They never think they have "arrived"—because they know that once they think that, they'll start sliding back to the place from which they came. " moment when their vision becomes clear. Suddenly they realize what they really, truly want to achieve. They find their passion.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Training Slides Pricing 122

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2021

They are ready to pay the price. They never think they have "arrived"—because they know that once they think that, they'll start sliding back to the place from which they came. moment when their vision becomes clear. Suddenly they realize what they really, truly want to achieve. They find their passion. The best want it more.

Training 121

Training Slides Pricing Entrepreneur 121

Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

As a consequence, small businesses should be able to get competitive insurance plans and better pricing. After the 2014 tax year, smaller businesses purchasing insurance through a state exchange will receive a credit for as much as 50% of their contributions, also on a sliding scale.

Slides 100

Slides Startup Study Resource 100

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. What is the business problem you are solving? Don’t degrade competitors, but use their specifics to highlight your advantages.

Invest 108

Invest Startup Slides Equity 108

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. There are typically two types of microscopes.

Tech Coast Angels 124

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2012

They are ready to pay the price. They never think they have "arrived"—because they know that once they think that, they'll start sliding back to the place from which they came. " moment when their vision becomes clear. Suddenly they realize what they really, truly want to achieve. They find their passion.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Training Slides Pricing 106

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

Social Network 319

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 319

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2016

They are ready to pay the price. They never think they have "arrived"—because they know that once they think that, they'll start sliding back to the place from which they came. " moment when their vision becomes clear. Suddenly they realize what they really, truly want to achieve. They find their passion.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Training Slides Pricing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2013

They are ready to pay the price. They never think they have "arrived"—because they know that once they think that, they''ll start sliding back to the place from which they came. " moment when their vision becomes clear. Suddenly they realize what they really, truly want to achieve. They find their passion.

Training 101

Training Slides Entrepreneur Pricing 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2018

They are ready to pay the price. They never think they have "arrived"—because they know that once they think that, they'll start sliding back to the place from which they came. " moment when their vision becomes clear. Suddenly they realize what they really, truly want to achieve. They find their passion.

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Training Slides Pricing 99

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

All of these are competitors in terms of speed, price, or luxury. So what are some of the key points that you should highlight in your investor slides to convince investors that you indeed do have a long-term competitive advantage over other alternatives in the marketplace?

Competition 93

Competition Startup Patents Slides 93