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.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 12, 2010
In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 22, 2015
We started hanging out a bit and discussing technology and entrepreneurship. 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. I reached out after the event to learn more.
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.
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. For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost. The details can be added later.
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.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. 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.” We take MBAs.
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