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 Win Consulting, Scout, Board, Operating, and Investment Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds
- 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, Goodwin Founders Workbench, Holloway, Lean Startup Stack, Pillar playlist, StartupRocket, Startupschool, and Startups.com. For more general business education (not focused on tech startups), I suggest HP Life and Inc.com.
