Naval and Mark Suster recently gave the keynotes at the 7th Founder Showcase. Andrew Chen did a better job of describing Naval’s keynote than I ever will: “People spend a surprising amount of time on things that will contribute little or no value to getting them to a seed round, and this talk is the [...]
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Before you raise money
November 29th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Presentations
This is an awesome talk by Naval on what to do before you raise money. I know I say this all the time, but this may be his best talk yet. Video: Before You Raise Money This talk is part of a course on Udemy, which lets people “take and build online courses on any [...]
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The rise of the angels
October 8th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Presentations
This is Naval’s keynote from Capital Factory‘s demo day. It’s called The Rise of the Angels, but it should be called The Rise of the Entrepreneur. It’s excellent. Video: The rise of the angels Here are the slides. Make sure you check out Slide 8 for a draft Entrepreneur’s Bill of Rights. And Slide 20 [...]
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How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year
February 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Case Studies, Customer Development, Lean, Presentations
“Lean startups are built from the ground up for learning about customers.” – Eric Ries I recently sat in on Eric Ries’ presentation on lean startups at Berkeley. The slides and audio are below. The presentation is about one hour long and it is gold. Audio: The Lean Startup (mp3) Slides: The Lean Startup (pdf) [...]
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Updated: A quick and dirty guide to starting up
November 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Execution, Founders, Markets, Presentations, Starting Up
We’ve updated the presentation in A quick and dirty guide to starting up. The new presentation includes the notes that accompany each slide. I’ve also included the new presentation below. Watch it in full screen mode for maximum pleasure. The full screen button is at the bottom right of the embed and it looks like [...]
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Updated: Our top 10 term sheet hacks
November 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Presentations, Summary
We’ve updated the presentation in Our top 10 term sheet hacks. The new presentation includes the notes that accompany each slide. I’ve also included the new presentation below. Watch it in full screen mode for maximum pleasure. The full screen button is at the bottom right of the embed and it looks like this: . [...]
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Customer Development: How to develop your customers like you develop your product
November 5th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Books, Customer Development, Presentations
“In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.” – Steve Blank Summary: In Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank lays out a customer development process that complements a startup’s product development process. This post includes video and slides where Steve explains the ideas in his book. About a year and a [...]
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A quick and dirty guide to starting up
October 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Execution, Founders, Markets, Presentations, Starting Up
Naval recently presented A Quick and Dirty Guide to Starting Up to Girls In Tech: (Slides: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Starting Up (pdf)) Here are some of my favorite quotes from the presentation: “We are faced with insurmountable opportunities.” – Pogo The most important thing: idea intelligence connections experience determination. Ideas, and therefore [...]
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Our top 10 term sheet hacks
September 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Presentations, Summary
Venture Hacker Naval Ravikant recently presented our top 10 term sheet hacks at Startup2Startup: (Slides: Top 10 Term Sheet Hacks (pdf)) Naval’s slides are a must-read—and a great summary of our detailed hacks. Slideshare has a transcript of the slides on a single page if you don’t want to flip through the presentation (scroll to [...]
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