Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A 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. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

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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Summary Writing Competition Sample 90

Berkonomics

MAY 11, 2017

As a professional investor in early stage companies, I have long discounted long, detailed business plans in favor of a concise “executive summary” followed by a believable spreadsheet-based financial forecast projecting three to five years into the future. Write these steps down in any form for now.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most sophisticated investors ignore them, focusing their attention on an entrepreneur's pitch and presentation materials, financial forecast and executive summary. As such, the primary goal of your executive summary is to open the door to an in-person meeting. Entrepreneurs routinely seek my advice regarding their executive summaries.

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Venture Capital Summary Technical Review Template 211

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. Just make note of it in the document and/or in an email when you send it. It would be great to get notes and summaries from these. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP. Don't stress over format.

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Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. It’s true that some solutions are really hard to quantify and the most obvious example people point to is email. You can’t quantify the value of email yet everybody needs it!”. Maybe they don’t?

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Sales Custom Customer Examples 328

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2023

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

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Tips Writing Startup Summary 123

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Or, as always, summary notes available below. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. But, in fact, I would rather have an executive summary than a pitch deck. Distribution.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2016

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. You have to be able to communicate effectively in all the common forms, including business writing, as well as talking, presenting, and producing videos.

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Writing Summary Email Ideas 62

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. Back to regular writing this week so check back in. TWIVC Summary – Richard de Silva. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

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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Summary Writing Competition Metrics 55

Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2023

As a professional investor in early-stage companies, I have long discounted long, detailed business plans in favor of a concise “executive summary” followed by a believable spreadsheet-based financial forecast projecting three to five years into the future. Write these steps down in any form for now. The post So, what’s the plan?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? You will get a response via email to schedule a time to talk. Do I have to write up the overview? If answers will take more than this time, we will do our best to point you in the right direction. How Does it Work? Who's the customer?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support. It worked like a charm.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? You will get a response via email to schedule a time to talk. Do I have to write up the overview? If answers will take more than this time, we will do our best to point you in the right direction. How Does it Work? Who's the customer?

CTO Hire 259

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 16, 2009

But flying without a map of some kind seems just plain too risky. [Email readers continue here.] Write these steps down in any form for now. Assess your current resources and attempt to calculate the resources needed to accomplish the goal. We’ll explore a more organized approach in the next insights. Positioning.

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Summary Resource Writing Email 149

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. I would likely open up your deck, read it again and begin contemplating your company again.

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Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

If you want to watch the show click the image above or this link , but if you want a quick read – here’s a summary: 1. There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs. Are the write ups worth doing or not? they take time!!

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

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. As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. It is possible to submit a plan through email but it is not the best approach. A few deals have been funded through this program.

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Capital Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 284

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

. - Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - If you’ve got good ideas for a story – shoot it over to them in an email. Be respectful.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. I often send the introduction email and then a second email to the reference to say, “This reference is really important to me. Summary I hope I’ve been able to persuade you that data rooms are waste.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Email 336

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below. These have the benefit to VCs of not cross-collateralizing returns and to LPs of being able to know the underlying asset before they write the check. But there are clear pro’s and con’s. Still reading?

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital Capital Startup Funding 292

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. In Summary. And that leads me to today’s post.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Or read the quick, informative summary below the image! Here’s a summary of our interview. Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. Matt is one of the most transparent, focused & honest startup guys you’ll meet. He told them it was now or never.

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Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. Your business plan’s writing style should take their preferences into account. So what writing styles should you use for these very different audiences? Hi, I’m writing this plan because.”

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Writing Summary Ideas Research 97

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I just write. I told her I need “20 minutes” to write a blog post. Keep on writing. I took 2 of those morning to write blog posts and then read. I do it every morning and many school days I get email and/or blogging out of the way in the early morning so I can cuddle up with them before school.

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Blogging Writing Startup Email 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2012

This is sad, since “how to write a business plan” is a frequent topic found in every business journal, and a common title in the business section of every book store. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. What is the definition of a good business plan?

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Sample Writing Summary Startup 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2013

This is sad, since “how to write a business plan” is a frequent topic found in every business journal, and a common title in the business section of every book store. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. What is the definition of a good business plan?

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Sample Writing Startup Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is sad, since “how to write a business plan” is a frequent topic found in every business journal, and a common title in the business section of every book store. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. What is the definition of a good business plan?

Startup 91

Startup Funding Sample Writing 91

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 19, 2014

Here is a simple summary of the origins of language evolution: Sounds -> Shapes -> Context -> Comprehension. Typewriters and word processors made it easier and faster to compose and correct correspondence, which also translated into email for immediate delivery (although passive receipt/viewing). The Beginnings.

Writing 101

Writing Email Mobile Summary 101

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

They don’t handle Twitter feedback, emails or IM. You should be actively listening the whole time (actively listening as in listening, writing important things down and asking relevant questions as they talk about their problems). So you’ve identified a problem.

Sales 314

Sales Startup Venture Capital Custom 314

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. they told you it was a great meeting but then they don’t respond to emails) DO NOT ASSUME it means they’re not engaged. Sometimes?—?best

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

The video can be watched here , but there is a most excellent summary below provided by John Excley. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Thank you, John. Part 1/3 of Interview: The Beginnings of Mike’s Entrepreneurial Journey [ Minutes: start – 13 ]. How is that unique?

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. In summary, a startup with no website, or a website with no credibility will kill your business.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. Many don’t return my emails on time. In Summary. They see how hard she does her job. They know her personally and know she cares about her constituencies even if she has to make tough trade-offs from time-to-time. So what I’m really hearing is, “VCs p**s me off.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. In summary, a startup with no website, or a website with no credibility will kill your business.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96