Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Report within the organizational structure. In the past, consultants were taught to report only to the top executive, and to assume leadership rights in the organization. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Dress to fit into the company culture, no more, no less. Produce results.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2010

Irvine-based semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom reported today that its Bluetooth technology is being used by digital video recorder firm TiVo , in its new keyboard remote control.

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Design Slides Report Technology 140

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

Woodland Hills-based United Online move to diversify away from its dial-up business appears to paying off, at least in profits, as the firm reported late Wednesday that it had $68.5M In its quarterly results, the firm continued to see a slide in the firm's dial up business, down to $54.1M in income on $260.8M in revenues.

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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.

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Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. These are captured fairly well by his slide: The beauty of what he's defined is the relationship between retention and referral efforts and lifetime value. If these numbers work out, then often scaling is more a question of capital.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Respondents were most likely to report revealing secrets to colleagues after drinking at a work event or complaining about work issues in a way they later regretted. But, there’s a sliding scale for how inappropriate workplace drinking can be. This actually might be easier than you think. ” Are Dry Events the Answer? .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover.

Search Engine Optimization 101

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 101

The Quigley Report

MARCH 4, 2008

Early stage VCs typically say that the ebbs and flows of the stock market don't effect the valuations they pay in start up financings. That may be true.

Startup 40

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2014

Report within the organizational structure. In the past, consultants were taught to report only to the top executive, and to assume leadership rights in the organization. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Dress to fit into the company culture, no more, no less. Produce results.

Startup 102

Startup Slides Customer Custom 102

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. This approach generally works well with customers because I find it much easier to build rapport when we talk like humans than when we all stare at the PowerPoint slides being projected on the wall.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover.

Search Engine Optimization 56

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 56

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

They were stark in that he had just sold his company to Microsoft for a reported $1.2 As per my video, think about the data in the following slide. But then Marc Andreessen weighed in – as did I and several others – and the media picked up on his comments. billion less than 5 years after it was created.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2010

So here goes … As much as I like to occasionally make fun of having been a consultant early in my career (although I built computer systems rather than just PowerPoint slides), I realize upon reflection that I did learn a lot of great management practices from working in such a large and well-structured organization as Accenture.

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Slides Help Ideas Venture Capital 342

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

You put some update slides on things like key hires or biz dev deals being negotiated and you didn’t plan to talk about them. But they were in a slide and people asked you questions so it ended up chewing up 30 minutes. You didn’t intend it to happen that way. 3. Have a standard pack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Report within the organizational structure. In the past, consultants were taught to report only to the top executive, and to assume leadership rights in the organization. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Dress to fit into the company culture, no more, no less. Produce results.

Startup 85

Startup Slides Customer Custom 85

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2012

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover.

Search Engine Optimization 85

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

What if that time could go into thinking through the companies most important strategic issues, talking early with investors about their views and adjusting the strategic discussion slides rather than the update deck? Act your stage. I see the same thing happen at the transition from A round to B round.

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Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2011

Report within the organizational structure. In the past, consultants were taught to report only to the top executive, and to assume leadership rights in the organization. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Dress to fit into the company culture, no more, no less. Produce results.

Startup 93

Startup Customer Custom Slides 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2011

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a SCREAMING post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover.

Web 93

Web Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network 93

Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The hikes were first reported earlier this month by Adam Feuerstein of The Street. —Xconomy reported Monday that Tom Daniel, Celgene’s (NASDAQ: CELG ) former president of research and early development, left the Summit, NJ, company over the summer to start Catalysis Advisors in San Diego. His slides are here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2010

Report within the organizational structure. In the past, consultants were taught to report only to the top executive, and to assume leadership rights in the organization. Results” these days are not Powerpoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Dress to fit into the company culture, no more, no less. Produce results.

Startup 90

Startup Slides Email Custom 90

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.”

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

This week, a poll released by the Hoover Institution and YouGov reported a slim majority of 51 percent in favor of Prop. In the summer, two polls found a large majority of support for the initiative, 66 and 73 percent, and third, conducted online, reported numbers similar to this week’s poll. While still positive for Prop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

The Kauffman Foundation reports that late payments are among the biggest challenges facing startups. They pay just the smallest bills and let the rest slide. In the early days of a new business, and every time you make changes, sales volumes slip just when you need them most to cover the extra marketing expenses and new infrastructure.

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Startup Sales Layoffs Slides 114

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Michael Carney , a tech reporter for Pandodaily , taught how to craft a compelling press release. If you are interested in obtaining the slide decks from the past “Intro to the LA Startup Community” events, you can do so here.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

For example, reporting to each other each time they make some process in their nutrition goals, there are tools to update people connected to support groups, about what they're eating and what activities they're doing. You might let yourself slide, but it's much hard if you're part of something where you end up disappointing other people.

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Social Network Tool Southern California Networking 259

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2016

The Kauffman Foundation reports that late payments are among the biggest challenges facing startups. They pay just the smallest bills and let the rest slide. In the early days of a new business, and every time you make changes, sales volumes slip just when you need them most to cover the extra marketing expenses and new infrastructure.

Startup 64

Startup Sales Layoffs Slides 64

AeA Los Angeles Council

JUNE 27, 2008

On June 24th, the AeA released their annual Cyberstates report , with a not-so-subtle warning. The AeA report cautions that if changes are not made in the U.S.’s The AeA report cautions that if changes are not made in the U.S.’s We’re feeding off past success rather than investing in our future.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. . - somebody needs to be sure that customer service is alerted to the new features and are trained in how to handle these functions with customers. -

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

He gave a glimpse into the 500 Startups program, including, but not limited to: Weekly roundup meetings with all hands to report wins and losses. So far, after every batch completion, that’s been the number one benefit reported by almost all our startups. It sits above curriculum, investor connections, etc. ” Demo Day.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

APRIL 10, 2008

According to the AeA 2008 Cyberstate's report, California's technology workers earned an average wage of $101, 200 (112% above the state's average private-sector wage.) The bad news, he told the publication, is "The tech industry and the country risk an impending slide in U.S. billion and 43, 400 high-tech enterprises.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It turns out that financial reporting (GAAP) doesn’t take into account the only thing that matters to startup survival – cashflow. 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 help you with pricing.

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Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Our team lead build a very elegant piece of code for inputting tasks, assigning them, tracking them and reporting on past-due work tasks. He build a wonderful reporting systems around this product. Customers had requested that we build out a more robust solution than our current product had.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

soil,” as reported on by Wired Magazine’s Caleb Garling. Slide taken from MorganLewis Immigration presentation. To speed growth, some companies and venture capitalists, most notoriously Blueseed, feel so strongly about “U.S. Yes, it is a floating crusade to be located 12 miles offshore of San Francisco free from immigration regulation.

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Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

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.

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