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How to Write a Punchy Pitch for Your Startup
“The temple of art is built in words.”—Josiah Gilbert Holland Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of startup pitch decks that are loaded with beautiful graphics that confuse me. I’m not sure who decided that pretty graphics improve your pitch, but sometimes they don’t. More and more, I find myself telling entrepreneurs, “Sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures.” Here’s an example. Would you...
Entrepreneurship vs. Executive Management
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”— Walt Disney If you have read “The Fundable Startup: How Disruptive Companies Attract Capital,” you know that I have struggled to understand the difference between “entrepreneurship” and being a successful CEO, I know that entrepreneurial studies programs try to teach students how to build businesses, but I have always felt...
The Fundable CEO
Many company founders want to be the CEO of their firm, but is that the best approach? Most successful CEOs work for 15-20 years to acquire much-needed expertise. A study of 2.7 million startup companies tells us that the average age of the successful startup CEO is 45. Venture capital investors have many opportunities to invest in companies with proven management teams. Startup founders need to...
8 Ways to Build Value in Your Startup
The concept of value is extremely elusive for startup companies. How is a startup company valued and how is value created in a startup? One reason the concept of value is so difficult is that it lies in the eyes of the beholder. Imagine a stack of startup company business plans or pitch decks complete with their visions, plans and financial projections. The best way to “calculate” the value of a...
How Startup Companies Should Compensate Their Advisors
How should a startup company compensate its advisors? This is a tricky question because there are no guidelines and most founders do not have experience in this area. But there are some general principles that can help you arrive at compensation that should be fair to the company and attractive to your advisors. Guiding Principles One obvious approach is to try to give your advisors an interest...
How to Choose the Best Advisors and Directors for Your Startup Company
Choosing advisors and directors for a startup is much more complicated than most founders realize. A very high percentage of startups pick advisors for the wrong reasons and end up regretting their choices. If you were trying to find the best doctor to perform LASIK surgery on your eyes, wouldn’t you find the one who has performed the most LASIK procedures? Or at least one who has performed more...
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