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Persuasion

#NotesOnTactics: Relationship Management Hacks For First-Time Early Stage Tech Startup Founders – Connecting The Dots

July 25, 2016 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

The post in which I offered some suggestions about how a first-time founder might make the fundraising process more efficient and less frustrating raised some follow-up questions that were sent to me via email by a handful of founders who read the post over the weekend. We went back-and-forth over email, but I think it […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Startups, Strategy, Tactics, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Early Stage Startups, Fundraising, Investor Relations, Persuasion, Pitching

#NotesOnTactics: Relationship Management Hacks For First-Time Early Stage Tech Startup Founders

July 23, 2016 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Note: I published a post titled “Relationship Management for Your Startup” on January 13, 2014 at Tekedia.com. This post is inspired by that one, and portions of this post are exactly identical to the original. It appears the post at Tekedia is no longer online. This post updates that one, with lessons I have learned […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Operations, Pitching, Startups, Venture Capital Tagged With: #NotesOnTactics, #Remix, Early Stage Startups, Investor meeting, Investor Relations, Persuasion, Pitching, Venture Capital

Revisiting What I Know About Intangibles & Startups

October 26, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

  This is the third post in my series of blog posts on economic moats. I have already written about Network Effects and Switching Costs. The remaining three sources of an economic moat are Cost Advantages, Efficient Scale, and Intangibles. ((Any errors in appropriately citing my sources are entirely mine. Let me know what you object […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Innovation, Management, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Brand, Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Innovation, Intangibles, Intellectual Property, Investment Analysis, Margin of Safety, Persuasion, Strategy, Venture Capital

How Studying Bankruptcy And Working On Two Turnaround Assignments Prepared Me To Become An Early Stage Venture Capitalist

August 1, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

  When I started business school at NYU Stern in the fall of 2005 my plan centered on taking every class in Bankruptcy & Reorganization, and Distressed Investing that I could. I took 3 elective classes in that area; Bankruptcy & Reorganization with Prof. Ed Altman, Case Studies in Bankruptcy & Reorganization with Prof. Max […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Finance, Business Models, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation, Investment Analysis, Key Performance Metrics, Operations, Organizational Behavior, Private Equity, Sales and Marketing, Startups, Strategy, Team Building, Uncategorized, Value Investing, Venture Capital Tagged With: Behavioral Finance, Business Models, Business Strategy, Competitive Strategy, Early Stage, Early Stage Startups, Leadership, Management, Persuasion, Strategy, Turnaround, Venture Capital

A Note on Startup Business Model Hypotheses

March 29, 2015 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

One of the observations I have arrived at over the course of meeting founders of early stage startups is that often it is not clear during our conversations if they have spent time examining the hypotheses that underlie the business model for the startup they are building. This post ((Any mistakes in quoting from my […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Innovation, Lean Startup, Long Read, Startups, Venture Capital Tagged With: Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Persuasion, Pitching, Venture Capital

Question Everything; My Remarks At FOCUS100 2014

October 4, 2014 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Background: I gave these remarks at Digital Undivided’s FOCUS100 2014 Conference which was held between October 3rd and October 4th in New York City. A number of investors were invited to explain to the audience how they ought to pitch venture capitalists in order to win funding. Digital Undivided is a social enterprise that develops programs […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Finance, Entrepreneurship, Funding, How and Why, Investing, Pitching, Technology, Venture Capital Tagged With: Behavioral Finance, Conferences, Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Innovation, Investor meeting, Persuasion, Pitching, Presentations, Venture Capital

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