Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I get questions from startup founders about executive summaries all the time. I answered some of those questions in a previous post, Crafting Your Executive Summary , so I won’t rehash them here. Here’s what not to do when crafting your executive summary. They range from “what should I include?” to “how long should it be?”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

We started hanging out a bit and discussing technology and entrepreneurship. If you want to get schooled by a guy who’s done it all I suggest watching this video interview I did with him that has already been watched 55,000 times or if you prefer a summary version in writing it’s here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. Still, I believe I’m offering an accurate representation of the ideal configuration of the main technology leaders. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. How to find a startup mentor. Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina said Thursday that it has received a favorable outcome in its patent litigation against Life Technologies. District Court for the Southern District of California granted it summary judgement, saying that its sequencing systems do not infringe U.S. Patent Nos.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. Tech teams are comprised of three distinct managements skills: people, process & technology. There are no “right” answers – just opinions. it’s the most expensive dilution you’ll ever face. Know the difference. Some people are good at all.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Often I see executive summaries from entrepreneurs who have never managed any form of business, or even managed employees in their past life, and who don’t know the first thing about business formation and managing for growth. I used to tell them to find a partner with knowledge in business creation and management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Watch the 30-minute interview to hear why but summary notes below. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Internationalization of Technology. ” Who else does Clayton pray for?

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2013

VIZIO said that it was granted summary judgement of invalidity on a patent held by Lochner Technologies LLC, a "non-practicing entity" (NPE). Irvine-based VIZIO , the manufacturer of HDTVs and other consumer electronics, said it has scored a win in another patent lawsuit today, saying that it has defeated a "patent troll".

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

tl;dr summary. If you want a comprehensive summary of the industry in this era it’s worth a read: VC Ice Age Part 1 – What Happens When a Market Comes to a Standstill? Summary version? My year-over-year summary sounds very similar upon re-reading them. I’m long on payment technologies.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. What's going to go wrong?

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? Do they have experience with the technologies involved in your project? Or is your project a clean slate? Are there complexities revolving around algorithms or databases? Do you anticipate scale issues presently or in the future? Make certain you explore these projects.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Irvine-based electronics manufacturer VIZIO says it has won its tenth case against what it calls a "patent troll", after winning a summary judgement of invalidity and non-infringement on two patents held by Oplus Technologies, Ltd.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

What most people never understood about Maker Studios is that much of their growth came through technology innovation and advantages on our back-end the most people didn’t even know about. Online technology company that distributes video. There’s a reason that Maker pulled away while most online video companies did not.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Create hassles for post-merger integration of technology or teams. In summary, tons of early-stage M&A is driven by only one thing: CEO ego. Dilute your cash, equity or both. Lead to bad blood on your existing team.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

In this case, the competition was not from a company but a new technology. When I listen to a pitch from an enthusiastic entrepreneur or read the summary of a business plan, one of the first questions I ask is about the strength of the competition. Bell was lucky, but the pace of technology was so much slower then.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail. If you plan to read the post you can skip the summary if you want. Summary / Putting it Into Action: Allocate enough time in your weekly routine for “being creative&#.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

when a technology startup, its investors or the market believe in robust growth rates writ large. On the other hand a certain amount of growth is fauxmentum caused by the over-funding of the startup markets and ebullient buyers of technology products (both businesses and consumers). __. faux·men·tum. fōˈmen(t)əm,fəˈmen(t)əm/.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Clark’s responses. Clark Benson is the Founder and CEO of Ranker.com. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

We were young, computer literate and interested in learning about or playing with new technologies. In summary, 2 quick rules: Do usability testing. We were smart kids straight out of college and were designing the systems that we’d want to use. Watch people use your product with little or no instructions.

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Design Startup Web 2.0 Tips 325

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

We will have to build (or buy) technology in this area.” .” “I’m already in a pilot with one of your competitors.” ” “There’s no way we’re going to partner in this area. It’s too strategic. ” Whatever this issue is.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

I think you'll enjoy hearing him, but if you're in a rush check out the summary notes below. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Highlights/Lowlights – summary of key events since the last meeting. and Half.com. How to run a board meeting?

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Capital Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 284

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Or, as always, summary notes available below. My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad on blogging.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 289

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. Apeel Technologies. Apeel is another Ag Tech company that has invented technology to reduce spoilage of fresh produce by extended the shelf life through natural means.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

In this case, the competition was not from a company but a new technology. Bell was lucky, but the pace of technology was so much slower then. Just to make a well-earned point now that you have heard my story, know your market and competition or don’t spend a dime on anything else. Oh, how I wish I had taken my own advice.

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Marketing Competition Research Summary 247

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Along with bringing in a hall of fame cast of serial entrepreneur speakers, Professor Greathouse assigned his students weekly projects where his students would create their own venture and produce an executive summary.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

It provides findings and recommendations intended to foster a mutual understanding between business and software leaders, shedding light on the current state of your technology and your team. Our goal is to build a decent understanding of your business, your product, and your technology. Why TechEmpower?

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Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review TechEmpower 260

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

You must invest in technology. Summary : YouTube as a customer acquisition tool to building great online businesses is unrivaled today. You should be able to convert at least 5-15% of your audience. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. I’ve written about that, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” You need both to survive.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. TWIVC Summary – Richard de Silva. They had a great team and interesting technologies. I’ve just finished a week away from the office for Spring Break, which was much needed. Thank you.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. Well, both of those things happened but they were lagging indicators. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

He listened intently through every presentation, asked questions and did a great summary of what he felt he had learned over the two days. With all the external presenters, the ones I enjoyed the most were Dan Senor who wrote the book Startup Nation (an examination of the Israeli technology scene).

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Startup Venture Capital Tips Custom Development 279

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s how recruiting works now, and continues to work with our technology. Why is technology important here? Coaches are looking to use technology more efficiently, so they can connect in a more effective manner with the people they want to, but still have the rules around our industry and how the industry operates.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. It could be virtual reality, online video, bitcoin, payments systems, mobile gaming, mobile security, agriculture technologies, drones, MOOCs, whatever. It’s exhausting.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? What's you believe is your biggest technology risk, if any? Who's the customer? How does the product solve a pain? What's the business model short-term and long-term? Who are the main competitors? How are you different? Who might be partners?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

But as usual there is a short summary to know the key topics where you can just skip to the critical point in the video you want to watch. 55:45 It seems obvious that technology is the natural choice to solve the pain points in education. If you have the chance to watch this interview I think you’ll really enjoy it.

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