By VStart, on January 19th, 2010
We saw a great video today that every startup entrepreneur should take a look at. It is an online interview by Jason Calacanis of Brad Feld. Jason is an outspoken entrepreneur who recently created a huge online discussion about entrepreneurs having to pay substantial dollars to present to Angel investors. Brad Feld is an entrepreneur, turned Angel and VC, who is very entrepreneur centric and has a widely read blog (that’s where we found this).
This video is 2 hours long but the first 90 minutes are really worth listening to. It covers these topics:
By VStart, on January 7th, 2010
Robb Moore, CEO of ioSafe in Auburn, always does something sensational at CES in Las Vegas. This year, as he did last year, he subjected one of the company’s hard drives to fire, and water submersion, but this time he further ran over it with the tracks on a 20 ton backhoe. Take a look at the video to see if the drive survived. By the way. Robb has bootstrapped ioSafe from day one. Seems this video goes a long way to say a lot a pitch or executive summary would never reveal! Robb is a VentureStart adviser.
By VStart, on July 13th, 2009
It’s easy for a startup entrepreneur to be trapped with the question “So what’s your valuation”. If you throw out too high a number that can be the end of the discussion; too low and you’ve left something on the table. The video below offers one answer: basically it suggests you say you’ll let the market decide.
That’s a reasonable answer since investors often have much more experience than the entrepreneur in knowing current valuation ranges. Yet, frequently investors will insist on an answer to better determine whether they should pursue further investigation of your company. So just in case the “let the market decide” answer doesn’t cut it, Read More »»
By VStart, on July 9th, 2009
There are many sites, documents and videos on the web about pitching a startup to investors. Here is one video that stands out. It is by David Rose, an angel investor, and serial entrepreneur. He is also the founder of Angelsoft (the platform used by most angel groups to manage entrepreneur applications, and deal flow).
Hope you enjoy it!
