Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2012

It is a failed litmus test for the entrepreneur, even if the plan is for a totally new device or service that could take the world by storm. Doing nothing is the main competitor for most products and services, whether a compelling new idea or a seasoned product long proven to be effective.

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Competition Slides Sales Ideas 189

socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting , which operates an online meeting service, has been acquired by another company, according to insiders and investors at the company. AnyMeeting offers up an online service which lets users run webinars, run online meetings, share screens and slides, and much more.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Keiretsu Slides Pasadena Angels 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

you can sign up if you want to try the service. Initially that means a creative, collaborative toolset for visual communications, allowing users to develop really compelling slides, print materials or social media posts that are more visually compelling and easier-to-build for those who aren’t naturally gifted as visual story tellers.

Startup 191

Startup Social Media Slides Design 191

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The first slide was entitled, “Once Upon a Time in Jorts&# as I found an old picture of myself and Jeremy Anticouni (we’ve worked together for 14 years, 3 companies) and sadly, I was wearing a pair of jorts. Tags: Eric Greenspan make it work customer service mini cooper social media training Twitter. It was a great day!

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News Santa Barbara Social Media Customer 172

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

I believe there needs to be more focus on reinventing eduction, healthcare, energy and even less noble industries such as television, telephony and financial services. As per my video, think about the data in the following slide. No wonder there’s a growth in video game companies and photo apps. Where I Might Expand the Argument.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2019

An entrepreneur pitches using a deck with no slide for competition. It is a failed litmus test for the entrepreneur, even if the plan is for a totally new device or service that could take the world by storm. If you are raising funds, list “do nothing” as a viable competitor in your slide deck. We have no competition.”.

Competition 120

Competition Slides Research Sales 120

Berkonomics

JANUARY 21, 2021

When I give a keynote address, I often start by asking my audience, by raise of hands, to tell me how many of them are angel or VC investors, how many are entrepreneurs, and how many are service providers such as attorneys. Immediately, I can tell how to orient the explanations behind my pre-cast slides, based upon the response.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

It seems sort of silly but for enterprise sales at least, if you don’t have buffer built into your price & services you’re bound to get hacked down anyways. Once percentage was agreed we’d negotiate “service credits.&# The standard contract had no remedies in the event we didn’t meet our SLA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

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. If they value your product / service they’ll buy it. If they don’t value your product / service they won’t.

Startup 298

Startup Sales Slides Metrics 298

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2020

Join JJ Richa in a fireside chat with Scott Fox, CEO of the OC Startup Council, for a discussion of the top mistakes that early stage entrepreneurs make when pitching their startups for funding.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Slides Startup Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Invidi – Provider of addressable television advertising and marketing services to cable, satellite and telco-delivered television carriers. Klarna – Klarna provides a service that allows consumers to purchase via invoices or on account (store credit) from online merchants. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 286

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service. Offers a private label service that allows campus book retailers to offer an online rental model; serves 1.3mm to-date. Online radio music service. Competitor: Slide. Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m no dummy on businesses that are in the financial services sector, but my 3 partners have been investing in the space for 20 years so I’m clearly on a different level. I have a few slides later that address that.&# (obviously if you say that you need to come back to the question either later or after the meeting.

Venture Capital 318

Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

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. - 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.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. A "client" implies that the consultant is in charge, while "customer" suggests that the service provider is beholden.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

In its quarterly results, the firm continued to see a slide in the firm's dial up business, down to $54.1M United Online operates NetZero and other, dial-up Internet access services. in income on $260.8M in revenues. for Q2, down 17% from Q2 last year.

Woodland Hills 100

Woodland Hills Slides Report Media 100

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The first slide was entitled, “ Once Upon a Time in Jorts &# as I found an old picture of myself and Jeremy Anticouni (we’ve worked together for 14 years, 3 companies) and sadly, I was wearing a pair of jorts. Tags: Eric Greenspan make it work customer service mini cooper social media training Twitter.

Burbank 156

Burbank Yahoo News Social Media 156

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

I covered this a bit in my post about the market definition slide in fund raising. Problem: People using Service Magic are only given three potential vendors to do business with and each vendor has to pay whether they’re selected or not. Explain how you’ll solve the problem. Kind of the obvious next step.

Product 348

Product Startup Design Blogging 348

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2021

Develop a personal-engagement extraordinary service mentality. The new customer generation wants to provide input, and wants to be treated as one-of-a-kind in their solution, delivery, and service. 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.

Customer 140

Customer Custom Slides Commerce 140

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Because they’re street smart, most great entrepreneurs tend to prefer getting out and talking with real customers rather than sitting in a cubicle all day doing beautiful PowerPoint slides. Do you like our product & service? The reality is that the market has changed and I need to change to the new realities. Ok, thank you.

Entrepreneur 306

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Customer 306

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. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. Opportunity sizing.

Slides 93

Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

However, he also realized that a far bigger opportunity existed with respect to helping other businesses sell their goods and services online. and I''ll put a directory listing service on the Internet. I''m not hiding behind any slides. Every morning I gonna spend the first hours of my day. I’ve got the list.

Startup 223

Startup Yahoo Santa Barbara Slides 223

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

In their passion and excitement about a new product or service, entrepreneurs tend to continually narrow the scope of potential competitors, and often claim to have no direct competitors. Non-specific terms, like better usability and low cost don’t incite customers to action these days.

Competition 166

Competition Funding Startup Patents 166

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better.

Entrepreneur 330

Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capital Hulu 330

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Whenever I see something in financial services I always ask my partner Brian McLoughlin who has spent more than a decade looking at Fin Services deals or I might send it through to Mark Goines who is a phenomenal angel investor (invested and on the board of Mint.com) and was previous SVP at Intuit.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

If you’re a financial services firm blog about personal finance. My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation. Since there are 10-12 slides this gave me my first few weeks. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. How to find your “voice&# ?

Blogging 287

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 287

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. Remember, investors are buying into the business, not the product.

Product 103

Product Slides Customer Custom 103

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 319

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 319

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2014

Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. All aspects of customer service apply. Specialist versus consultant. Charge by task or fixed-rate.

Startup 102

Startup Slides Email Customer 102

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) This is a huge industry dominated by Western Union with a very limited service to its users. Products like these basically help you crowd-source your customer service input and product development pipeline.

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Develop a personal-engagement extraordinary service mentality. The new customer generation wants to provide input, and wants to be treated as one-of-a-kind in their solution, delivery, and service. 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.

Commerce 109

Commerce Slides Customer Custom 109

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 the product or service come alive.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

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. I have seen many companies who without a great CFO have squandered a great product or service. Once I saw the working draft I could give her input into what I wanted changed.

Outsource Development 339

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 339

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2010

Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. Results” these days are not Powerpoint slides, or theories and recommendations. All aspects of customer service apply. Specialist versus consultant. Charge by task or fixed-rate.

Startup 90

Startup Slides Email Customer 90

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

when every executive function attends a meeting and when each person has prepared “just” 5–10 slides the entire meetings becomes more of an update meeting and less of a strategic debate about the most critical issues affecting the company. The non-obvious reason is this?—?when

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Startup Slides Ideas Guide 161

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

So if you do nothing else do this: Decide how much you want to lose and over what period of time Sign up for any service where you can track what you eat and track everything (Noom and MyFitnessPal are two good ones) Weigh yourself daily at the same time every day Hold yourself accountable. There’s a term for this?—?an What About Exercise?

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