Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Although the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t technically require a business plan, they do demand essentially the same information in a project format.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

It should be imbedded in the home page of your web site, the introduction section of your business plan, the heart of your executive summary, and the first slide of your investor pitch. I recommend that a good elevator pitch is not just for riding with someone in an elevator.

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Sample Summary Startup Slides 127

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. You can easily remove content you own (comments on your site or accounts). Remove unwanted content, where possible.

Search Engine Optimization 101

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 101

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides. In addition to local business meetings, this can now be done online through startup matchmaking sites, including CoFoundersLab , Founder2be , and StartupAgents , as well as LinkedIn. Prepare a pitch deck to document and share your plan.

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Funding Social Media Slides Platform 73

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. You can easily remove content you own (comments on your site or accounts). Remove unwanted content, where possible.

Search Engine Optimization 56

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 56

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. You can easily remove content you own (comments on your site or accounts). Remove unwanted content, where possible.

Report 98

Report Search Engine Optimization Startup Google 98

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The company announced this summer that over 55,000 individuals and 6,000 companies are using the site to manage the private investing process and share $5 billion worth of deals in a broad variety of industries. HOW TO ENTER: (i) create a free deal room on the CapLinked website; (ii) upload a slide deck describing the business plan; and.

Competition 70

Competition Idealab Slides Startup 70

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Prepare a slide deck to highlight product and business. For example, some sites can be easily searched for enterprise startups, such as AngelList, while others, like CrowdFunder, tend to highlight consumer products. Market research from credible third parties, such as Gartner Group, is also critical to success.

Platform 94

Platform Equity Invest Technical Advisors 94

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

With content management systems like WordPress , getting a site up and running is no big deal. A contact form is one of the first interactive elements that most novice bloggers learn to use on their site. Nowadays, you’ll never run out of choices when it comes to contact form plugins that can easily be integrated into your site.

Tool 39

Tool Custom Customer Sites 39

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. Slides, please.” And covered we did. I was wrong. This is going well.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

He quickly realized the power of the Internet when he came across a relatively obscure site, called Yahoo! But there was this one site that somebody told me about or maybe I read about and it was called Yahoo! a) cool site of the day (feature). I''m not hiding behind any slides. I looked at it because it had. (a)

Startup 223

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s fair for you to ask for a few slides from each in advance, and make sure the overall story is complete and consistent. The founder needs to remember that investor meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or one or two executives.

Invest 59

Invest Startup Doc Slides 59

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. You can easily remove content you own (comments on your site or accounts). Remove unwanted content, where possible.

Search Engine Optimization 85

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 85

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. You can easily remove content you own (comments on your site or accounts). Remove unwanted content, where possible.

Web 93

Web Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network 93

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Get your Internet domain name and website. Build an investor presentation and summary.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 19, 2016

It’s possible to take a blog post and turn it into a slide show, infographic and video, for example. A video can be placed on your own website and also shared on sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo as well as many others. Not Making the Most of Your Content. You can get a surprising amount of leverage from good content.

Social Media 56

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Content 56

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We're up to around 2 million users who have created 30 million profiles on the site, and it's growing very fast month over month.

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Yammer Geni Startup Southern California 133

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

What happens with gamers, is their music experience is one where they found good immediately, where they can look like rock stars, slide around on the floor, hold the guitar up in the air, etc. In addition, we have thousands of others you can download from our web site. Our technology allows you to not play a wrong note.

Orange County 244

Orange County Startup Slides Paramount 244

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Although the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t technically require a business plan, they do demand essentially the same information in a project format.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Get your Internet domain name and website. Build an investor presentation and summary.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

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. From my perspective as a professional investor and long-time advisor to entrepreneurs, much of this urban legend advice is just plain wrong.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Technical Review Writing Slides 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

After viewing your slide deck, if investors are still interested in your startup, they will ask for a deep-dive meeting to drill in on any hard questions before commencing due diligence. Hundreds of crowdfunding sites claim to help you get funding for your startup in the form of a donation, pre-order or a token reward.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Get your Internet domain name and website. Build an investor presentation and summary.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

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 Venture Capital Sales Slides 294

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Another impetus for this was I saw some of the slides that Mary Meeker had done in the Kleiner Perkins annual PDF that they send around, and I realized that the market was being underserved by Airbnb and other key players in the market.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mobile Pricing 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

What started off as a creative project for charismatic founder Erik Torenberg has turned into a promising social site with fast monthly growth and a natural expansion into new verticals (news, debate, DJ battles, karaoke, etc.) through organic interactions from the community.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. I started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

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. The problem is, how are you going to administer the site?”

Social Media 101

Social Media Design Los Angeles Media 101

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. Don Norman at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , June 21, 2010 Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide. Stylish visualisations, tons of data.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. You will have to hone your story well, down to fifteen minutes and perhaps fifteen slides in your presentation.

Equity 156

Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. You will have to hone your story well, down to fifteen minutes and perhaps fifteen slides in your presentation. company.

Equity 232

Equity Startup Invest Organization 232

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was like nobody would give me any respect and they just saw me as the guy who goes and talks to senior people who does PowerPoint slides. Let’s go create a ridesharing site. [00:26:32] Then suddenly I was a PowerPoint weenie. So when I left Andersen I did a startup…. [00:12:57] 00:12:57] DEREK: This was in Europe?

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2018

Do your homework on opportunity, competitors, financial projections, funding required, and hook investors the first time you can with an executive summary and ten-slide pitch. As much as you need an investor, you need a few key customers to be your advocate and beta test site. Request warm investor meetings from peers and advisors.

Startup 56

Startup Equity Funding Slides 56

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 1, 2010 The Q&A site Quora has become an indispensable trove of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the tech industry. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. This should not deter you. Why do we do this?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175