How to Price your Startup Product
How are software prices determined? You have a new startup product and SaaS company! Congratulations, how are you going to price the product? Pricing is based on research and data – not opinion or passion. To have a sustainable business you’ll need to make money. This presentation was originally provided to the WTIA Cohort Program.
Read MoreCreating a Successful Startup Board
This has been promoted to its own page A Startup Board of Directors or Advisory Board is very different than a board of directors for a public company or a mature company. We’re trying to get you to scale, we’re not worried about public stock prices yet. I joined my first outside Board in 2003
Read MoreMad Libs Pitch for Startup Companies (Updated)
This is taken from Adeo Ressi’s Madlibs Pitch at Founder Institute (www.fi.co). I’ve added a couple of items in the summary, the first is – how do you make money? Something important to all investors. The second is where do you need help? What question do you want investors to ask after you’re done with
Read MoreWTIA Startup Program – Cohort I – What to Expect
Hey Cohort 1, I wanted to introduce myself and the Cohort I program. I’m Dave Parker and the WTIA Chair of startup programs/club. I’m a five-time founder and VC with Seven Peaks Ventures. I work with Nick Ellingson who’s the point person for programs and is the WTIA staff member. We also have an
Read MoreHow Startups Get Started
Reposted from Q13 Fox – Seattle Startup Week 2017 Starting a new company is never easy. Some started in their garage. Other people wrote an idea down on a napkin at a coffee shop. It all started somewhere. To have the next big idea, you need good connections, investment money and above all, a good
Read MoreBook 100 of the 100 Book Challenge
Last New Years Eve, I was having dinner with Dan Rossi and our wives and we were talking about a blog post I had read where the author had read 200 books in a year. At the time, we both discussed the fact that we were active readers, but didn’t have a goal to target
Read MoreSeattle Startup Ecosystem – Start Here
New to Seattle or the Seattle Startup Community? Here’s a presentation to help you navigate the resources, events (and some of the people to avoid). The following presentation was given at University of Washington CoMotion Startup Fundamental Series. 10/13/2017
Read MoreMVP Series 3: Ready, Pick a Vendor
After fiddling with wireframes, you’ve done your customer development. using the PowerPoint demo. People like your idea – CHECK! You can go past GO! But you don’t get to collect $200, yet. You have more work to do. You’ve drafted the specification. Pages, bullets, and versions are numbered. You’ve ruthlessly moved future features into that section
Read MoreStep by Step Guide to MVP Part 3 – Data Driven Decisions
Part 3 – Making your first data driven decision Given what you have discovered so far in your experiment, what’s your next step in investing in your MVP and this idea? Because it’s easy to spend reach cash on advertising it’s important to have a thesis on why you’re investing in this idea. What I’ve
Read MoreDomain Squatter (for a week)
I have become that which I loathe, a domain squatter. Before you react, let me tell you the story – and get your advice. I’m not talking about domainers – domain speculators that buy up a bunch of good (and bad) names in order to hold them and sell them at a later date. I have
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