Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins. ” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

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. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million. A recent study said seed stage valuations have been quite static recently.

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Venture Capital Slides Seed Funding Google 232

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2019

His studies show that companies at this stage show five key characteristics, which I believe every startup should strive to achieve from the very beginning: Decision making. The ability to readily make and consistently implement decisions.

Slides 96

Slides Framework Resource Organization 96

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. For the rest of you entrepreneurs, consider the value of a business plan when it is not required. Clemson University professor William B.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 126

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Chamillionaire has a way more refined sense of what customer behavior is like than most ivy league graduates with nice Powerpoint slides that I meet. And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I was the guy in high school who didn’t have to study early to do well on tests and that continued into college. The first was to do a 5 minute “ignite&# presentation – 5 minutes, 15 slides. I did the outline of the 15 slides on the flight over (after a few beers). Internally I was a wreck.

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Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2014

His studies show that companies at this stage show five key characteristics, which I believe every startup should strive to achieve from the very beginning: Decision making. The ability to readily make and consistently implement decisions.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Framework Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2017

His studies show that companies at this stage show five key characteristics, which I believe every startup should strive to achieve from the very beginning: Decision making. The ability to readily make and consistently implement decisions.

Startup 58

Startup Slides Framework Resource 58

Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A recent study by the RAND Corporation found that about 60% of employees who work at companies with 50 or fewer workers currently have an offer of health benefits from their employers. The minimum level of coverage includes, among other things, emergency services, hospitalization, wellness, and maternity and newborn care.

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Slides Startup Study Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2013

His studies show that companies at this stage show five key characteristics, which I believe every startup should strive to achieve from the very beginning: Decision making. The ability to readily make and consistently implement decisions.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Slides Framework Resource 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Let me be quick to say that a plan doesn’t have be a book, and probably should start as a “pitch deck” of maybe a dozen slides which cover all the right bases. There are no guarantees, but various studies have found that entrepreneurs who start with a plan generally double their chances of building a successful business.

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Startup Writing Patents Competition 65

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

And having frameworks is a useful way to standardize your customer studies so that highly intelligent, inexperienced young people can crank out PowerPoint slides with such authority and beautiful consistency. I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper.

Startup 378

Startup Framework Slides Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2011

His studies show that companies at this stage show five key characteristics, which I believe every startup should strive to achieve from the very beginning: Decision making. The ability to readily make and consistently implement decisions.

Startup 93

Startup Slides Framework Resource 93

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. For the rest of you entrepreneurs, consider the value of a business plan when it is not required. Clemson University professor William B.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109

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

InfoChachkie

APRIL 18, 2011

Studies have confirmed this phenomenon. I documented these highlights on PowerPoint slides, using as many direct quotes as possible and splitting the comments into “Positive” and “Negative” feedback for each question. Remember all those terrible MySpace self-portraits?

Entrepreneur 217

Entrepreneur Startup Slides Examples 217

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Join because you know you’ll be earning less than you could elsewhere at some meaningless job cranking out non-core code, producing Powerpoint slides or shuffling paper. This really conflicts with my view that options are to be put in the top drawer of your study at home and treated like upside gravy. We’re a meritocracy.

Startup 294

Startup Sales Venture Capital Slides 294

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

We don't have day rates, but I can let you slide this time if you just want to check it out." He was clearly studying a textbook. After some brief pleasantries, I asked him what it cost to join the club and if they offered a one-day pass. He laughed and apologetically said, “It’s something like $500 a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2010

His studies show that companies at this stage show five key characteristics, which I believe every startup should strive to achieve from the very beginning: Decision making. The ability to readily make and consistently implement decisions.

Startup 52

Startup Slides Framework Resource 52

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

You have no choice but to jump into solution mode for a bit to see if your case studies on a successful implementation at other customers opens up the person you’re meeting a bit. &# Hopefully this will elicit a long-enough answer for you to engage in a discussion. If you get no love after that you might be in for a tough meeting.

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Sales Startup Venture Capital Customer 314

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

The biz dev finished out the power point slides and tech kept adding more and more to the features. We knew that no matter how great our slides were or how amazing the website was, something different had to be done to get the judges and the audiences full attention. Pitch Day…Wake up the judges!

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Startup Technical Advisors Ideas USC 99

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. You should, too. (no, no, I don’t take affiliate commissions!).

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.” Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. Yet everywhere I went I was now “strategy guy.”

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Slide taken from MorganLewis Immigration presentation. But not so fast, as the law is still a proposal and not predicted to be enacted until at least later this year. Mark Zuckerberg certainly would not have made the cut for this right to form Facebook, with his beginnings from his college dorm room. Requires an employer.

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Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Every good technologist should start with at least a single page business plan, or construct a “pitch deck” of maybe a dozen PowerPoint slides to cover all the important content. Most of the business plans I see getting funded today are less than 30 pages in total, even including financial statement attachments.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

If I see tons of “update slides” and know that we don’t have an important board decision I might just bite my tongue. It’s one thing to push back against executive compensation but another entirely to help with benchmarking studies and help get board support for a plan.

Startup 251

Startup Help Technical Review Writing 251

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

. - Union Square Ventures , June 10, 2010 No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models - Steve Blank , April 8, 2010 Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events (..)

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

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. Sounds obvious now, but as I wrote the original piece the DJIA had already come roaring back from 6,600 to 9,865 so it was certainly against conventional wisdom.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2016

The guests included Robin Wright (a leading expert on Iran), Vali Nasr (Dean of John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies) and Martin Indyk of the Brookings Institute. Key slides showed that world growth was dictated much more by China than US since 2008 and therefore is China catches a cold we all get sick.

Pricing 150

Pricing Slides Press Study 150