One good trick for describing a project concisely is to explain it as a variant of something the audience already knows. It’s like Wikipedia, but within an organization. It’s like an answering service, but for email. It’s eBay for jobs. This form of description is wonderfully efficient...
They've tried to pack in all the little nuances of their business into this slide. The result is a slide that no one can easily remember. Contrast this with the slide they end up using on Demo Day to explain their startup: Ahhhh, it's like a breath of fresh air. Short, sweet, ...
1、 清楚说明自己做的事情(Explain what you’re doing) 投资人在决定是否要投资你的公司之前,首先要知道你是干什么的。所以开场白最好是:“我们是Jeff和Bob,我们正在做一个易用的基于WEB的数据库系统,下面我们将介绍一下为什么用户会需要这个产品。” 2、靠谱的Demo(Get rapidly to demo) 一个Demo演示胜过千...
Y Combinator会在正式的Demo Day之前组织一次演练,纠正创始人在展示阶段遇到的问题,尤其是年轻的技术人员更需要了解这些注意事项。最核心的其实就两点:讲解自己做的什么东西;解释用户为什么会喜欢他。 技术人员如何通过短短的展示打动投资人,总结十四条注意事项如下。 1、 清楚说明自己做的事情(Explain what you’re do...
You can explain what your company does and what makes it unique in simple, easy-to-understand language. This is a fantastic set of questions all entrepreneurs would do well to ask themselves, even if they have no intention of applying to YC. ...
A third reason why it is good to migrate is because HTTPS to HTTP referral data is blocked in Google Analytics. So for example, lets say your website is on HTTP still and you went viral on Reddit and YCombinator. Both of these sites are running over HTTPS. The referrer data is complet...
If you're not a master of negotiation (and perhaps even if you are) the best solution is to tackle the problem head-on, and to explain why investors have turned you down and why they're mistaken. If you know you're on the right track, then you also know why investors were wrong ...
For what it's worth, the countermove is to ask someone who does this to quote a specific sentence or passage you wrote that they believe is false, and explain why. I say "for what it's worth" because they never do. So although it might seem that this could get a broken discussion...
When it comes to digital nomadism, Sam Matthew has walked the walk. Today, he heads the legal team at OnDeck, a platform for entrepreneurs with a fully distributed workforce. Before that, he was general counsel for Remote Year, a company that facilitat
This means, in practice, that the “ought to” believer shouldn’t have to explain how things ought to be, the rest of us should just get it.Please, please, please don’t let this pathology take over your career. If you have an issue, the very best thing to do is pretend that I...