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. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 5, 2018

The purpose of this workshop is to educate idea-to-early stage startups about investors, fundraising, and how to make a successful pitch. Through a slide-by-slide explanation of the investor deck, you will learn what turns investors on, what turns them off, and what investors absolutely abhor when founders are pitching them.

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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. Business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

You will encounter many sensible people who say versions of this: @msuster I quite often use my laptop to look up and quickly research and feedback things we are talking about in the meeting. While it’s tempting to have a bible for your board members you’ll just enable them to “scroll ahead” and look at future slides when they’re bored.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 8, 2018

The purpose of this workshop is to educate you about investors, fundraising, and how to make a successful pitch. Through a slide-by-slide explanation of an investor pitch deck, learn what turns investors on, what turns them off, and what investors absolutely abhor when founders are pitching them.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2020

housing market continues to slide due to the economic aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. percent of all homes, with about 216,000 of those homes in the process of foreclosure; the company said about 7,960 (3.7 According to ATTOM Data, it tracked 1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2011

Adeo asked me to speak about fund raising. I generally don’t like to speak about fund raising in a frothy market. I think you can get the gist of it from my presentation although some slides don’t quite tell the full story. I had the privilege of keynoting at the Founder Showcase tonight in San Francisco.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

How about employees all the way down the line and through the corporation? But how about awarding stock options for all employees? How do we align them to the goals and strategies of the enterprise? Obviously for the appropriate individuals, a bonus program aligned to the department’s goals is appropriate.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

The great thing about beginning your pitch in an awkward manner is that you can alienate the majority of your audience quickly, making the fact that you are unprepared (as outlined in next suggestion) much less relevant. If you are forced to display financial data, ensure that the slides are unintelligible. Apologize Profusely.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 21, 2021

And if you are making a one-to-one presentation, don’t start without a conversation about the other person’s knowledge of your space. Immediately, I can tell how to orient the explanations behind my pre-cast slides, based upon the response. Asking the important question creates a connection.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

This post is about the “P” or pain. The point of PUCCKA was to develop a common methodology to make sure our whole team approaches sales with the same mindset and to give us a language to talk with each other about our prospects, as in, “have you identified your customers pain point yet?”. That is still “pain.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. So why would I have talked so much about the deck in my post? I funded them 8 weeks later.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

If you care about being a compelling presenter you need to work on it if it doesn’t already come naturally. I talked about the importance of the narrative here. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. what do you think they’d want to hear about?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. And you need to be careful about giving up control to cofounders as much as VCs. I don’t think VCs care as much about co-founders & economics as people think. Be careful about board construction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Avoid PowerPoint and graphic slide presentations. He, like Steve Jobs, believes the process of generating a short written narrative forces a clarity of thinking not found in visual slide presentations. Treat every day as the first day of your company's life, and you won’t have to think so much about all the ways it could end soon.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2019

An entrepreneur pitches using a deck with no slide for competition. If you are raising funds, list “do nothing” as a viable competitor in your slide deck. We investors see this all the time. When asked (as we always do,) the response is “This is new. We have no competition.”. External factors to consider.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2010

They talk about: 5 Trends Converging (3G + Social Networking + Video + VoIP + Impressive Mobile Devices) which is more than what I think of as mobile internet. Faster Cycles They also talk about waves lasting 10 years, but it’s a lot messier than that and the cycle times are much faster. Those things likely are not mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I also recently wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. Tell them about your personal background but also tell the story about how the idea for the company came about and talk about the early days. They’re partially right.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

The great thing about beginning your pitch in an awkward manner is that you can alienate the majority of your audience quickly, making the fact that you are unprepared (as outlined in next suggestion) much less relevant. If you are forced to display financial data, ensure that the slides are unintelligible. Apologize Profusely.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2011

Today’s post is a subtle one about positioning yourself in a presentation. It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides. The worst behaved will literally never be on the slide you’re presenting. In slides, less is almost always more.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

One of them was about better understanding personality types. This has proved one of the more valuable lessons about meetings I have learned. For extroverted people I recommend that entrepreneurs have an “executive summary&# slide up front that cuts to the chase. Don’t dwell on this slide for ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Luckily, the basic principles for reputation management are the same for both business and personal environments: Actively monitor what people are saying about you. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2021

In reality, in business or even in sports, the evidence is conclusive that it is as much about how you think, as what you do. You need to think about how they apply to you. The best don't just think about their desire for greatness; they act on it. It's not just about practice, but focused practice. The best want it more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2022

Don’t let yourself slide in making future commitments because these are the ones that can make you grow to the next level. Avoid serious conversations about your commitments. Too picky about conditions under which you’ll commit. Growth and success are all about narrowing down the options, committing to one, and making it happen.

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Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2014

If you are making a one-to-one presentation, don’t start without a conversation about the other person’s knowledge of your space. Immediately, I can tell how to orient the explanations behind my pre-cast slides, based upon the response.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

As an advisor to business executives and owners, I often hear discussions about employee accountability , almost always focusing on the negative. When I talk with your team members, I’m often surprised at how little they know about your highest values and performance expectations. Provide regular feedback on execution and results.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

So it was fun to get his perspective on topics that are sometimes too toxic for VCs to talk about publicly. We had a great hour-long chat about the industry and the deals of the week. We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2013

And of course, one of the products that were heavily discussed about was Google+. I therefore decided to put together a slide deck to explain why the smart talent may be a cause of the problem, some design flaws relating to usability and user experience, as well as a modified focus. Google+ is like the Bing for Microsoft.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

Whether it’s 10 minutes or an hour, there will be a moment in every meeting where you receive tough questions about your business. Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., and prepare a response.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

For aspiring entrepreneurs, or if your last startup failed, it’s all about standing out above the crowd of others like you, and demonstrating your readiness. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. A perfect size is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2022

When empowered to make decisions of genuine import about their own jobs and responsibilities, and given the resources and freedom required, each employee personally buys in to the overall success. There is just the right amount of process and structure to efficiently get the job done. Accountability.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We’re talking of course about next week’s vote on Proposition 61 in California, an attempt to control drug prices in the nation’s most populous state. There has been only a little slide , however, in the state’s projected rejection of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.). million) to GlaxoSmithKline ($4.5

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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. Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Never be surprised at a board meeting. Maybe 2 hours.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

Speaking of time: They were smarter about allocating enough tick-tock for each phase of the process leading up to their final presentation. Put it in the slides: At the 2016 event, Liu & Huang overlooked the need to include some of their key findings in their slide deck.

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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. How do you stack up against the ones you know?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Image via Pixabay In my role as a new business advisor and occasional investor, I hear lots of people talking about their dreams of “someday” starting and running a new venture. They can talk with passion about their innovative new idea, and ask lots of questions, but never seem to really get started.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2011

For instance, if the other party is concerned about your financial viability, the most important component is not the amount of cash you have in the bank. As noted in Competitive Sleuthing , some partners routinely share information about the companies with whom they are working. . Go To The Meeting – But Do Not Take The Materials.

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