The CEO of one of our portfolio companies is working on a fundraising deck and asked me for some tips. I gave him my favorite, "keep it to six slides." He ended up with thirteen which I see as a moral victory. The founder and CEO of another of our portfolio companies is wrapping up a large round and he showed me his pitch deck. Guess what? Six slides. I had nothing to do with his deck.
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There is a widespread myth that the most important part of building a great company is coming up with a great idea. This myth is reflected in popular movies and books: someone invents the Post-it note or cocktail umbrellas and becomes an overnight millionaire. It is also perpetuated by experienced business people who, for the most part, don’t believe it.
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Startup CEOs wear many hats. None, perhaps, is more important than that of “company pitchman.” In today’s competitive funding climate, CEOs often present at events like Under the Radar, South by Southwest, and DEMO –- where they have five minutes on stage to ‘sell’ their company to potential investors, partners, and customers. Getting these presentations right leads to financing, buzz and growth;
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There are many books and countless blog posts about pitching (to both customers and investors). All we can hope to do here is, (1) put the pitch into some perspective, and (2) abstract the few key things that will help you when you are on stage. Most entrepreneurs are passionate about a particular market or technology, and putting a sales hat on does not come naturally to them. That is okay.
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Living in an epicenter of entrepreneurial activity, I suspect you already know that the market for angel and venture capital funds is very competitive. Not only are entrepreneurs developing impressive business opportunities, but they also are boosting their funding potential by packaging their deals in ways that reduce perceived investor risks.
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People have been very excited about the advertising prospects of social networks lately. First you have announcements from MySpace about an 80% rise in CTR through profile targeting, as well as some claims of Facebook’s going rate CPMs being $4. Furthermore, the recent gold rush in Facebook apps has led quite a few folks amassing large userbases with dreams of incredible monetization.
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This is the core of FREE, at least as it exists online. Both media and most online businesses are based on "software economics", where the cost of creating something of value is relatively high but the marginal cost of distributing it to each consumer is very low. So you can look at the web as the ultimate extension of the media business model to a wide range of other industries.
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I realize it can be a bit nerve-racking to implement your first business model, particularly if you have strong organic growth. But it’s not a moment of truth you should dread – instead it is a baseline that you will work to improve over the life of your company. Business models can and should be honed over time to increase the value of your users whether or not the first iteration is fruitful.
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But until recently, practically everything "free" was really just the result of what economists would call a cross-subsidy: You'd get one thing free if you bought another, or you'd get a product free only if you paid for a service.
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Simply counting up page views or unique users doesn't necessarily translate to revenue. There are lots of other revenue models that can make sense for web based applications and services.
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