The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

The path to success is far from easy, which is a lesson Quattro Development’s founders, Rob Walters and Mike Liyeos, know all too well. Instead of looking at their failures as setbacks, Walters and Liyeos credit their present success to their ability to bounce back from challenges. Maybe getting some references,” Walters says.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2023

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , today we present Minué Yoshida, owner of the New York-based Yoshida Academy which offers courses to help clients in mastering public speaking and leadership skills and diversity, equity and inclusion consulting. Please send me a message and let’s connect!

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Co-Founder & CEO. Co-Founder & COO. David Harper. Maha Harper.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap? It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. Research your audience before presenting. Then match your pace to cover all the material.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2023

The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. Research your audience before presenting. Let the top person do all the talking.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation. Be sure to check out the entire presentation.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. If you believe in yourself, your business and you can honestly say you bring value to your clients; then there is no need to get just any business opportunity that presents itself. This is a big mistake. Elizabeth Colón.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. As an immigrant from Argentina, I took a career path based on opportunities presented to me by mentors and professors followed by my complete determination and arduous work. TSM: Fantastic!

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. One of the most important ones is an investor presentation or a “deck.”. One of the most important ones is an investor presentation or a “deck.”. Crafting the best story for your company.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

To help teams answer this question I have collaborated with Steve Schlafman to create a product – an exercise, to be completed by those founders building a company. Today we are launching a way for co-founders and founding teams to understand themselves and each other better. Tapestry.so Tapestry is one of those answers. .

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 4, 2021

That’s why it’s important for founders to understand that the clearer you can articulate the opportunity and its potential risks – and proposed mitigations – the better equipped investors will be to assess your business as a viable investment. These are presentation slides which briefly summarise you and your business.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Adriana Rozo-Angulo, founder of international consulting firm MAS Connections and author of The Buoyant Business: How Simplicity Can Keep Organizations Afloat in a Stormy Economy. Adriana Rozo-Angulo, President & Co-Founder, MAS Connections.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2012

I recently read Brad Feld’s thought provoking piece encouraging founders to sit on the board of another startup company. I found it thought provoking because I’ve always believed startup founders need extreme focus on only their company to succeed. We have Ian Rogers , the CEO of Topspin Media on our board.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I did almost every VC meeting myself save for when one of my co-founders, Tim Barker, was in town. So if you present to me and the CEO can’t drive the demo or the financial model themselves it is a BIG RED FLAG. I did our marketing and didn’t use any outsiders. But my point is that I flipped burgers from day 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

For example, you must forego the traditional meeting approach, where a team member presents a slide deck with all the background and multiple solution options on an issue, and asks you for a decision. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A stellar example is Blake Mycoskie , founder of shoe company Toms, who donates one-for-one a pair to dis-advantaged people in other countries, is never shy about sharing his personal stories of working directly in the field where the donated shoes are lifesavers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

For example, you must forego the traditional meeting approach, where a team member presents a slide deck with all the background and multiple solution options on an issue, and asks you for a decision. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2020

The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. Research your audience before presenting. Let the top person do all the talking.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 7, 2019

Transcript of How to Give a Great Business Presentation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Because what we see in presenters, generally, is one of two things. But I think people probably terribly underestimate the performance aspect of even that conference room presentation. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

If you are presenting to a group of angel investors, assume business attire or match the norm of members. All it takes is the same diligence that every entrepreneur puts into solution development, their business plan and investor presentation. Dress to make a statement or stand out in the crowd.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

The funny thing about stats is that you can basically come up with a stat to justify any argument or position--and the whole female founders in tech conversation has a ton of numbers that people put out there as various types of proof and justification, or blame. First time founder friendly. Well, it''s gotta mean something, right?

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

As Bryan stated below, there are no shortage of “How to pitch” or “How to behave” articles by VCs but really very little advice for VCs by founders. Anyone notice there's a ton of VCs giving founder advice, and almost no founder advice for VCs? Lines Not Dots Raising money from a fund is a process, most founders get that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact. Execution leadership. Everyone wants leaders who get things done and meet commitments.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I presented on two topics at WebSummit 2018 in Lisbon on November 6th. The slides and videos of those two presentations can be found below. The videos are provided courtesy of WebSummit: 9 Secrets for Startup Success, A roadmap for B2B Founders Lean Startup taught the world how to find product/market fit, but in the.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

I’m Mitch Grasso and I am the CEO and founder of Beautiful.AI. In addition to acting as CEO and founder, I’ve also worked as an art director and a programmer. You could make great-looking presentations if you had the time and design skills but most people don’t and those were the people struggling to create great presentations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I sit through a lot of presentations. These range from companies pitching me to portfolio companies presenting at board meetings. Each of these scenarios has a team presenting. Some CEO’s are masters at communicating when team members are present. The tougher the question the better. This is really annoying.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

He has embodied the typical founder journey you would expect from any dropout kid from Stanford or Harvard. I would put him high on the list of startup founders who have a deep knowledge of the users they serve, what is unique about their app and how to build a product for scale.

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Haystack

JULY 15, 2018

Immediate “Yes” – It is not common, but it is possible that I leave the meeting with all the information I need and, with some quick reflection, signal the founder that I’d like to invest. ” Here, the onus is on me to re-engage with the founder and ask for their time. This can be as short as 24-48 hours.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada. Version One Ventures does not look at founders in a gender specific light.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

This is one of the reasons that it's so important to have a good co-founder. Although you certainly can make the case for a single-person startup , it's so much easier to have a co-founder and we've covered in the past tips on finding a good one. Never Minimize the Value of Your Co-Founder. Clarify What You're Building Up Front.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

Over the intervening years, we’ve heard continued and consistent feedback about the value of it for seed stage Founders in providing both strategic thought and tactical help in assembling their post-financing investor communications. Again, we’ve put together the full template here for founders to utilize.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

by Swapnil Shinde, Co-Founder and CEO of Zeni. If your chart of accounts isn’t structured in the right way, you may end up presenting to board members or investors with financials that aren’t GAAP-compliant or taking weeks to provide the right reports, both of which will give the impression that you don’t have your corporate side in order.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. KPIs Every Founder Should Track. Use a dashboard for KPI presentation so everyone can visualize the data in real-time, foster conversation, and act on the information in a timely manner. “What gets measured gets done.” .

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2021

Richard Branson’s adventurer escapades are legendary, and Steve Jobs made new product presentations an experience, as well as a sales pitch and an education. Great entrepreneurs seem to all exhibit a common set of attributes which go well beyond the basic skills required to be an entrepreneur: “Larger than life” personality and presence.

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