Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

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Startup Patents IP Social Media 145

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. A sample of three views is adequate. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Funding Innocal Offshore 124

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. The Case Foundation invests in people and ideas that can change the world. While winning pitch competitions is great, it’s not the most important thing about Startup of the Year. “All

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 137

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2020

Investors invest in people, more than ideas. Investors want to hear a quantified problem, a simple solution description, opportunity size, competition, traction, team qualifications, how much money you need, and what equity you are willing to give. Grab investor attention in the first couple of minutes.

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Entrepreneur Sample Ideas Customer 127

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2013

I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note. A few thousand dollars is a small price to pay for a successful business, or for that $1M investment you expect the plan to entice.

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Sample Writing Startup Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In my experience as an angel investor, the perfect pitch length is ten slides, outlining the business problem, your solution, opportunity sizing, competition, and financial projections for the next five years. There are plenty of guidelines and sample models available on the Internet, so don’t be intimidated by the terminology.

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Ideas Slides Sample Examples 126

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

Whoever wins, these are some of the local firms in interesting markets--and their tough, well-backed head-to-head competition--worth watching. HauteLook, one of the first firms to capitalize on the sample/private sales market, is already profitable and is growing rapidly. DocStoc vs. Scribd. DocStoc - Profile. HauteLook - Profile.

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Southern California Rustic Canyon SoCal Startup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2012

I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note. A few thousand dollars is a small price to pay for a successful business, or for that $1M investment you expect the plan to entice.

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Sample Writing Summary Startup 96

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

I didn’t invest in any of their fine competitors either like Lyft, Sidecar, Hailo, etc. They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. It’s a brutally competitive world out there because there are extreme amounts of money at stake. My sample is over years.

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Press Journal Startup Training 418

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. In reality, a few thousand dollars to a few winners, is tantalizing but probably not a return on the investment. Multiple micro-investments are not manageable. Intellectual property is jeopardized.

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Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. And that leads me to today’s post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Competition and sustainable advantage. List and position your competition, or alternatives available to the customer. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. What equity is the company willing to give in return for the investment? What is the timeframe of return on investment?

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Slides Competition Sample Sales 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note. A few thousand dollars is a small price to pay for a successful business, or for that $1M investment you expect the plan to entice.

Startup 91

Startup Funding Sample Writing 91

SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.) And it made me sad.

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Startup Software Review Competition Southern California 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. The problem of amplification: The problem got worse as the data flowed out to the “bulge bracket&# investment banks. Nobody was surprised.

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. A sample of three views is adequate. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. In reality, a few thousand dollars to a few winners, is tantalizing but probably not a return on the investment required. Multiple micro-investments are not manageable.

Funding 106

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Competition and sustainable advantage. List and position your competition, or alternatives available to the customer. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. What equity is the company willing to give in return for the investment? What is the timeframe of return on investment?

Slides 93

Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2015

Investors invest in people, more than ideas. Investors want to hear a quantified problem, a simple solution description, opportunity size, competition, traction, team qualifications, how much money you need, and what equity you are willing to give. Grab investor attention in the first couple of minutes.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Sample Ideas Customer 106

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. LibreDigital.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. A sample of three views is adequate. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

Startup 69

Startup Patents IP Social Media 69

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Competition and sustainable advantage. List and position your competition, or alternatives available to the customer. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. What equity is the company willing to give in return for the investment? What is the timeframe of return on investment?

Slides 94

Slides Competition Sample Sales 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2011

Crowd-pitching is an offline event, but logically similar, which give several candidates an opportunity to pitch to a crowd of interested people for a couple of minutes, after which the crowd “votes” with some play-money to pick the best candidate, who then wins some nominal investment amount or services. Intellectual property is jeopardized.

Funding 92

Funding Startup Social Media Sample 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

Startup 103

Startup Patents IP Social Media 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2016

Investors invest in people, more than ideas. Investors want to hear a quantified problem, a simple solution description, opportunity size, competition, traction, team qualifications, how much money you need, and what equity you are willing to give. Grab investor attention in the first couple of minutes.

Startup 57

Startup Entrepreneur Sample Ideas 57

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Often, beneficial changes will have a short-term cost to achieve market growth or competitive advantage. Investors, for example, usually want short-term profit distribution versus re-investing for the future. Ask for analysis and feedback based on long-term impact. Look for objective and current data to support your analysis.

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Tips Metrics Sample Statistics 51

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Consumers and businesses, in an ever-competitive marketplace that has been energized by the internet, no longer wants ads that just tell them something. Sometimes free products, like samples or products with the brand name, like a pen engraved with the company logo, are good ways to maintain name recognition. junk mail?.

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Advertising Training Customer Custom 69

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

These aren’t “sample sizes” but rather full experiences for women who trust FabFitFun to curate for them. Curation is obviously also a form of competitive advantage for companies like StitchFix, TrunkClub and DailyLook who offer stylists to help you curate your clothing experiences. I don’t use the word ‘spectacular’ lightly.

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Product Course Customer Custom 296

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Patents IP 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2010

Crowd-pitching is an offline event, but logically similar, which give several candidates an opportunity to pitch to a crowd of interested people for a couple of minutes, after which the crowd “votes” with some play-money to pick the best candidate, who then wins some nominal investment amount or services. Intellectual property is jeopardized.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Social Media Sample 59

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

Semiconductor startups seem to be quite rare in today's environment, with few companies being funded or launched, due both to the difficulty of bringing products to market, lack of investment capital, as well as lots of established, large companies in the industry. It's the same part that came out as our first engineering sample.

Patents 100

Patents Sample Technical Review Pricing 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2010

If you notice, if you dig into the market, lots of the 10G switch manufacturers and high end server guys are all looking to attack that market, because the big banks and investment trading houses tend to be a great beachhead for new technology. It's sampling and we have customers looking at LAN on motherboard. Russell Stern: Yes.

Networking 124

Networking Startup Design Customer 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

He also architected web-based trading platforms for several investment banks. Prior to joining Contur, he founded a successful business, and was a finalist at a South by Southwest Startup competition. Once we have enough samples, and our organizer is fairly good in organizing everyone’s email, then we’ll announce our business plan.

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Email CTO Hire Startup Organization 63

InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

To go into production, I needed to build hundreds of molds and invest in a cost effective quantity of wheels. I was, however, very competitive when I was young, and had played football in high school well enough to get scholarship offers from what would be called division 1 schools in today’s world.

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Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100