I’ve included below some recent presentations to founders:
Startups
- Shaking the Money Tree: Social Media and Other Innovative Tools for Raising Capital (VIDEO)
How to target potential investors in online networks. Internet due diligence. Create stealth buzz online: Market without marketing. - The Next Great Entrepreneurial Opportunity: How to Identify Market White Space (VIDEO)
How to identify new business opportunities and research your market while spending as little money as humanly possible.
Management
- Recruiting Hacks: How to Woo and Win the High Performers (VIDEO)
Recruiting great people. Hire the best, pay the best. - How to Manage Your Board Meetings
How to prepare for and manage your investors via your board meetings. - The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Winning New Clients Online
Social media is not just a tool for socializing; it is an exceptionally powerful set of tools for growing your sales. - Financial Modeling for Entrepreneurs
Discusses best practices in building financial models, a template financial model, and valuing startup employee options. - Earning Revenue: Internet Business Models
Discusses business models for technology startups.
Investment Themes
- Where are the Disruptive Asset Management Companies?
The most attractive industries to disrupt are highly profitable ones, and asset management is traditionally a highly profitable industry. We believe there is significant room to disrupt this industry. - Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services
AI is a layer of technology changing financial services just like many other industries. I discuss what is AI, why is it exploding in prominence, how it’s impacting investing in particular, and then more broadly other areas of financial services. - Online Dating is the Future of Your Business
Online dating is now a mainstream method for singles to meet one another. Entrepreneurs, investors, and other businesspeople can learn a lot from the diverse and well-developed business models in the online dating sector.
Other Presentations and Videos
- How to Raise Entrepreneurs
On how to raise children who become entrepreneurs.
Other research
- Please don’t pitch a venture capitalist without this checklist
- Best practices in building financial models
- Template financial model
- What type of capital should you raise, and from who?
- Fundraising hacks
- How Star Wars will help you raise capital for your company
- Face-to-face meetings are important, but written collateral is mandatory for closing the deal
- The investment committee rejected you; what does that actually mean?
I’ve written extensively on building a company: board of directors, business models, competition, diversity, fundraising, internationalization, leadership, legal, management, market research, marketing, mergers & acquisitions, negotiation, product management, recruiting, sales, design, startup ideas, etc.
For well-organized content on growing your company, I recommend: Failory, Foundersuite, First Round Review, Founder Library, Goodwin Founders Workbench, Guides.co, High Output Founders Library, Holloway, Lean Startup Stack, Pillar playlist, StartupRocket, Startupschool, and Startups.com. For more general business education (not focused on tech startups), I suggest Biztree (business templates), HP Life, and Inc.com.
