Archive | January, 2009

Positioning and pitch decks for startups

Jan 29, 2009
in Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

A friend of mine is putting together his first deck for potential investors.  In typical startup fashion, they launched a product, got a number of users, and then iterated several times to improve the service.  With the product in the hands of tens of thousands of users, they started getting inbound requests from larger organizations [...]

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Sundance and a movie about a web pioneer you may have never heard of

Jan 22, 2009
in Digital Media

My brother-in-law, composer and recent Emmy winner, Ben Decter, is kicking it this week in Sundance while two of his movies Heart of Stone and We Live in Public make the rounds. This summer he and I spoke about We Live in Public and Josh Harris.  It took me a few minutes to remember who [...]

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Going old school – how to reach people effectively

Jan 22, 2009
in Web/Tech

I had lunch with a friend last week when we were talking about the days years and years ago where it was cool to have an email address on your business card.  In fact, I remember picking attorneys to work on our venture deals in the mid-90s not only based on cost and experience but [...]

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

Jan 12, 2009
in Wireless

 As I look around post-holiday season, I am seeing more and more regular, non-technical friends and family get connected on their mobile devices.  What does that mean? A great example is that of my father-in-law who got rid of his old Motorola Startac and exchanged it for an iPhone.  Yes, he got an iPhone, and [...]

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