Company Building

13
Sep
How to pitch your startup under 10 minutes

How to pitch your startup under 10 minutes

The following startup pitch guide is focused on presentations that need to be done within 10 minutes (or less). It is very hard, and some entrepreneurs master this. But everyone can get better at this with practice.
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04
Aug

The Discipline of Business Updates

Sharing regular business updates is an important discipline for startups and management teams. For me, these regular updates come each
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09
Jul

Cheerleaders and Advocates

Some of the best emails and texts arrived in my inbox in the last few days were from friends and
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08
Jul

Capitalization Table (cap table) Basics

In my experience, I have found that even with founders and entrepreneurs have various levels of understanding of capital structure
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03
Jul

CEO Self-Reflection

Originally posted on June 11, 2022 Self-reflection is an important skill. In startups, CEO self-reflection can be very hard to
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03
Jul

How to build A+ team?

Originally posted on July 23, 2022 Recent article in WSJ about Tour de France provides a good reminder of how
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03
Jul

Approaches to Strategic Financial Planning for Startups

Originally posted on September 7, 2022 I want to turn to a different topic: approaches to strategic financial planning for
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03
Jul

AI Generative Models are eating the world

Originally posted on September 21, 2022 My Berkeley co-instructor David Steier and I have been talking about large transformer and/
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03
Jul

How startups can navigate 2023?

Originally posted on March 31, 2023 It's kind of crazy that we are now at the end of
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03
Jul

How to Drive Customer Loyalty?

Originally posted on April 1, 2023 New York City weather turned fabulous early afternoon on this Saturday. We walked around
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