Techstars organized a boot camp for people who served in the military. The focus is to teach / encourage veterans to think about starting or joining tech startups. This presentation is a primer on fundraising and other related items.
General Assembly Class: Insiders Guide to Seed FundraisingThomas Wisniewski
A deck I presented at General Assembly in NYC seminar on best practices in fundraising for seed-stage tech start-ups. Target Audience: Tech-Startup Entrepreneurs
YES! Innovation Can Be Measured - demonstrating impact and scale across the e...Lisa Falcone
Innovation metrics are hard. In fact, casual observers typically assume that innovation, as a “fuzzy” art, can’t be measured at all. This is an unfortunate belief, because it unduly miniaturizes innovation’s crucial role in driving firm-wide value.
However measuring innovation is possible – and necessary for success.
Because innovation metrics are fraught with peril, we’re asked about innovation metrics weekly. Teams are looking to understand what to measure, what others are measuring, what really matters, and why. Through the years, we’ve learned there are four key types of metrics that all mature innovation programs utilize.
To unpack which metrics to use when, view this free slideshare deck today!
General Assembly Class: Insiders Guide to Seed FundraisingThomas Wisniewski
A deck I presented at General Assembly in NYC seminar on best practices in fundraising for seed-stage tech start-ups. Target Audience: Tech-Startup Entrepreneurs
YES! Innovation Can Be Measured - demonstrating impact and scale across the e...Lisa Falcone
Innovation metrics are hard. In fact, casual observers typically assume that innovation, as a “fuzzy” art, can’t be measured at all. This is an unfortunate belief, because it unduly miniaturizes innovation’s crucial role in driving firm-wide value.
However measuring innovation is possible – and necessary for success.
Because innovation metrics are fraught with peril, we’re asked about innovation metrics weekly. Teams are looking to understand what to measure, what others are measuring, what really matters, and why. Through the years, we’ve learned there are four key types of metrics that all mature innovation programs utilize.
To unpack which metrics to use when, view this free slideshare deck today!
Great companies build products that customers love. While this means they build valuable and useful features, it also means they don’t build things that aren’t valuable. Really great products and software are created by organizations that manage to put the customer at the center of their thinking and then work iteratively and incrementally to offer and test products to see what delights and what doesn’t.
The startup community has evolved disciplined practices that allow them to successfully navigate these highly uncertain environments. You aren’t a startup anymore, but these techniques can scale to your environment.
In this talk, you will learn the skills to become effective, disciplined explorers who know how to bring new features, products and services to market inside the context of a large company. This will allow you to successfully navigate uncertainty, while not sacrificing your ability to execute.
Lean Startups - TechStars Patriot Boot CampZach Nies
This talk reveals the surprising science behind building successful startups. Even though building a startup is hard work with high failure risk, entrepreneurs Steve Blank and Eric Ries have popularized practices that can increase the odds of success. Following the Customer Development or Lean Startup practices will show you what to do. This talk will give you an understanding of why these techniques work, which will allow you to better apply them to your startup or scale them into your enterprise.
Great companies build products that customers love. While this means they build valuable and useful features, it also means they don’t build things that aren’t valuable. Really great products and software are created by organizations that manage to put the customer at the center of their thinking and then work iteratively and incrementally to offer and test products to see what delights and what doesn’t.
The startup community has evolved disciplined practices that allow them to successfully navigate these highly uncertain environments. You aren’t a startup anymore, but these techniques can scale to your environment.
In this talk, you will learn the skills to become effective, disciplined explorers who know how to bring new features, products and services to market inside the context of a large company. This will allow you to successfully navigate uncertainty, while not sacrificing your ability to execute.
How well are you responding to and taking advantage of market disruptions? Business agility is key to staying alive and taking advantage of market shifts for long-term business viability. This presentation walks you through the steps to make your organization more innovative and able to meet an ever-changing market.
Frame, Build, Measure, Learn: Responding to ChangeZach Nies
The key to running effective experiments is to first frame the experiment thoughtfully. This takes time, but the investment pays off many-fold. This presentation will guide you through the key steps of framing, which, when done properly, reward your brain–and your organization–with learning.
Lean Startup Experiments are the means to generate the currency of Entrepreneurship - learning.
In this workshop, first presented at Live The Dream, we take you through how to identify the next experiment, write it up, retrospect and record it.
Borrows from work by Ash Maurya, Eric Reis and more.
Customer experience in today’s business climate requires businesses to execute, learn, and adapt at increasingly faster rates. Therein lies the opportunity for businesses that want to aggressively compete and differentiate, build customer experience agility across their operations, and dramatically shorten design and development cycles. This session provides a hands-on introduction to the principles behind agile and lean startup—emerging practices in the developer and entrepreneurial communities—and discusses how to leverage these approaches in CX strategy, design, and business operations. With customer experience agility, brands can more rapidly learn from customers, deliver disruptive value, and respond to market conditions.
One out of ten startups is successful. The Lean Innovation approach improves the success rate of Startups. Entrepreneurs and Investors learn earlier what works and what does not and hence can act faster. Lean Innovation starts to unfold its potential from the early stage of a Startup even long before it has a sellable product.
However, just using the tools does not result in increased effectiveness. Lean Innovation requires a fundamental mindset change of Entrepreneurs and Investors: Away from unproven assumptions to facts through creative experiments. In this training we show the essentials of the lean innovation framework and which aspects and metrics you the investor should request from the Entrepreneurs to make sure the Startup measures real progress daily and continuously adapts the path forward based on their latest learning to generate more value in shorter time.
As an introduction we recommend to read the Harvard Business Review article ”Why the Lean Start-up Changes Everything”.
Lean startup & customer development with Javelin Experiment BoardTaavi Lindmaa
Workshop about how to user Javelin experiment board for validation innovative idea and customer group. Presentation consists of different example of methods that could be used for conducting interview, setting up landing page, a/b testing, validating value propositions and delivering service with concierge method.
Practical lessons learned from our startup growth accelerator, Sprinthack on growth, agile product management and how to integrate this approach to any organisation's way of working.
Lean Startup Experiment - Build the Right Thing by Learning FastAndrea Darabos
Do you experiment enough in your product development or innovation process? The biggest risk in innovation is to discover too late that you are not solving a relevant problem for your customers, and discovering this too late... Learn 10 tips to improve your experimentation through our template and start reducing risk in innovations right ahead!
Webinar: Driving Innovation Across an Enterprise with Booz Allen HamiltonBadgeville, Inc.
According to Brian Burke of Gartner, “Applied to innovation, gamification can motivate people to share their ideas within a community… encourage people to build upon the ideas of others… and take part in something larger than themselves.” That crowdsourced approach and collaboration could lead to the next billion dollar offering. At the forefront of driving innovation across the company and for their customers, Booz Allen Hamilton understands what it takes to launch such a large initiative.
In this session, you will hear from Booz Allen Hamilton and Badgeville:
- How gamification can drive innovation across the enterprise
- Lessons learned from using gamification to drive innovation
- Case study of how gamification has worked at Booz Allen Hamilton
- Demonstration of gamification for innovation
From the Women Helping Women in Entrepreneurship on July 24, 2013 at MassChallenge
The Boston entrepreneurial community is home to some of the strongest and most successful women in entrepreneurship. Join the women of Golden Seeds and several local serial entrepreneurs for a discussion on sources of capital for your business. The discussion will be followed by small breakout sessions that focus on the challenges your company may be facing.
www.thecapitalnetwork.org
How do you figure out how much money you need, and when? We’ll look at a case study and talk P&L to help you determine the right market for your product and which funding source is most appropriate to maximize the exit for your company.
Everything you need to know about an investment and fundraising for start-ups. The presentation covers all different sources of financing for high growth companies:
- Bootstrapping and the four Fs
- Angel investors
- Startup accelerators
- Venture capital funds
- Investment documentation
- Alternative funding sources (crowdfunding, etc.)
- Grants and incentives
In the presentation you will also find some basics how to prepare your investment documentation and how to pitch to venture capital investors.
Funding options early stage companies april30 v2-lsn.pptx
Are you thinking about what you need to fund your company? Where do you start?
Funding is not one size fits all. Every company has to approach their pathway to funding with a unique approach. Join our fundraising experts for an in depth discussion of what options you have for funding and how to decide which paths are right for you and your company.
Topics covered will include investment criteria, time to closing, investment range, success rates, control features, compliance requirements and the overall costs of capital from each such source.
www.thecapitalnetwork.org
Beginner's Guide: How to raise Seed and Series A Funding for Your Tech StartupsRakesh Soni
This is a short beginners' guide to learn about startup fundraising particularly Seed and Series A round.
CONTENT:
Introduction
Startup Funding 101:
What is funding and why do you need it?
Types of funding
When to raise and how much to raise
Understanding exit
Key players in fundraising
What matters to founders?
Understanding dilution
How to determine the valuation
Understanding controlling terms
How do VCs work?
Seed and Series A Funding:
Are you ready for funding?
Preparation
How to raise: processes, tips & tricks
Recommended Reading
Q&A
Venture Lane Studio - Fundraising ABC's - Jan 2022David Chang
Fundraising ABC’s: How to raise a seed round for B2B SaaS
Overview of fundraising basics, a 3-step how-to guide on seed round raising tactics, and pitch tips/resources
Ahmad Takatkah (@SinbadTheVC) and myself (@MRArrabi) gave this workshop at the IEEE event in Hashemite University on Oct 7, 2012. It covers tips & advice on how to launch your startup in Jordan.
Funding Options at Harvard iLab
Are you thinking about what you need to fund your company? Where do you start? Funding is not one size fits all. Every company has to approach their pathway to funding with a unique approach. Join our fundraising experts for an in depth discussion of what options you have for funding and how to decide which paths are right for you and your company. Topics covered will include investment criteria, time to closing, investment range, success rates, control features, compliance requirements and the overall costs of capital from each such source.
www.thecapitalnetwork.org
As presented @ Betahaus Sofia. It is very much based on the original seed fundraising presentation of Steve Schlafman (http://www.slideshare.net/schlaf/raising-a-seed-round), the best I've seen on the subject.
Ncfa Craig Asano Jan 8 equity and funding presentationCraig Asano
Beyond bootstrapping raising capital is critical to launch or grow most ventures. Here's a lean overview of common funding options. Here's to your future success!
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. Background
• Silicon Valley Bank = commercial bank serving the innovation economy
• Working with tech startups and venture capitalists for 10+ years
• Worked in key startup markets: San Francisco and New York
• Helped hundred of startups with their fundraising process
• Success in finding investors for startups
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3. Fundraising
• It takes A LOT of time (3 to 6 months)
• It’s not fun
• It is distraction
• It is REALLY hard
• Many startups are not able to raise $ (for various reasons)
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4. Fundraising Rounds
• Friends and Family
o $0K to $200K
o Concept and team
• Accelerators
o $15K to $300K
o Concept and team, sometimes product
• Seed Round
o $250K to $2M
o Concept, team, product and some customers/users
• Series A round
o $2M+
o Product is working well, you have good metrics, time to step on the GAS
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6. Access to Investors
• Personal Rolodex
• Founders of Venture Backed startups
• AngelList
• Service Providers (Lawyers, Accountants, Bankers, etc)
• Community (co-working facilities, events, hackathons)
Don’t
• Cold email / call / tweet
• Get over aggressive at events
• Hire a broker
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7. What You Need
• Team
• Pitch Deck
• Product Demo
• Financials (projections, balance sheet, cap table)
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8. Valuation
• Function of supply and demand
• Seed Rounds - 10% to 30%
• Series A Rounds – 15% to 30%
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9. Trends
• Financial
• Education
• Commerce
• Advertising
• Media
• Social
• Healthcare
• Infrastructure
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