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. Institutional investor bloggers. 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
- Free money for startups
I write periodically on managing your board of directors; business models; economics; financial analysis; fundraising; leadership and management; market research; marketing; M&A; negotiation; recruiting; sales; and startup ideas.
