If you have read the news recently, then you've heard of Clubhouse. The social media app has taken the world by storm. But, chances are, you can't use it just yet. It's only audio, it's filled with controversy, and it has no memory. You can only get invited, for now, and there's little moderation.
Many might be wondering how to start an eCommerce business and we’re here to help you slim that down a little into practical first steps, cost considerations, and more.
When Facebook opened its platform for developers, back in 2009, Farmville leveraged the social platform and soon managed to amass more than 32 million daily players and about 90 million total. The game is over now, but its legacy of monetization and addictive mechanics on video games is real.
Facing Investor Finder vs. AngelList is a comparison we hope will help your choices as you seek new opportunities for your business.
MTV marked generations, set trends, and gave us new ways of enjoying music. But now, music purists repeatedly say that the brand is dead.
What are the best practices when it comes to cold emailing investors and customers?
As the world of cryptocurrency broke out of its incipient stages, a name showed promise: XRP. Now, it's making news for all the wrong reasons. Prominent asset managers in cryptocurrency have severed ties with XRP, and its value has plummeted.
We figured giving you a quick blog read which answers how to start a mobile app business. It can be a valuable starting point.
We’re guessing you’re probably wondering what Investor Finder has got on Crunchbase or vice versa.
What do you get if you can have influencers and explicit pay-per-view content in the same place? What you get is OnlyFans, and people are still figuring out the morality around it.
When both the Republican and Democrat parties agree that you've gone too far, then you have, in fact, gone too far. That's the case with Facebook. The social media giant has had a volatile 2020, and now it faces not one but two lawsuits.
Not everyone is born knowing how to create a digital marketing proposal. And not only marketers need to rely on those valuable documents.
Zappos is the epitome of customer service and revolutionary corporate culture. Much of it was due to one of its co-founders, Tony Hsieh, and his eccentric lifestyle.
If you are an early-stage startup in the tech space and you are looking for money to grow your company, the official term is raising capital, the most commonly recommended instrument to raise funds is a convertible note. However, to understand how those work, we first need to understand how equity (or stock) works.
Comparing Investor Finder vs. LinkedIn Premium should give you precise answers, including which of the two platforms to use for which specific purpose.
HBO recently shocked the movie industry when they announced that their 2021 movies would be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. A decision like this could be the final blow to that centennial rite of watching movies in a dark room with a giant screen, blasting sound, and a hundred other people.
The infamous Fyre Festival wasn't at all what its organizers promise. It was in fact, a complete chaos and an enormous scam.
What is a co-founder? How to pick the best co-founder for a startup? Let's dive into a few different questions on them!
There are a lot of moving parts to valuation and things vary across rounds. In this article, we analyze how the typical numbers look like for different types of rounds.
Video games have a rightful place in popular culture. Some of them are so wildly popular that they turn into a global phenomenon, and Among Us is the latest one.
We hope our 10 tips to cut back on software expenses can help expedite SaaS app expense needs and get you right where you need subscriptions to be.
We went through a theoretical company's story while analyzing how the cap table evolved through various rounds of funding.
Travis Kalanick, Uber CEO, helped launch Uber into a new level. But, Kalanick's time in Uber was driven by an alpha-male philosophy that led to controversies piling one on top of the other.
We’re hoping that knowing why we moved from Monday to ClickUp can help startup entrepreneurs make better decisions on the kind of software they wish to use for their own companies, especially regarding project management (PM).
Most people already have a few set ideas on what the best expense tracking software for a business should look like. Yet, we still need to scout the latest tech
The 15 best call to action examples we bring to you today make us forget there were people behind those buttons. Let’s see how we can get users to click, buy, promote, or take a specific action around a particular product.
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods: two companies want to create a vegan option that's just as good as the real thing. This battle, however, is much more than just a burger patty.
Salesforce, the customer relations management company, just got Slack for itself for a good $27 billion.
Our recommendations of the best productivity apps currently out there can really boost our use of time.
Sometimes founders can’t help but wonder: How do I present financials for a startup with no revenue? It isn’t an easy job, primarily when these numbers are commonly used to attract potential investors.
Year 2020 is passing by quickly, eh? Yet, we’re still in a good time to consider what industries are blooming in the startup world. So we’ve drawn a list of the 14 best innovative startup ideas for 2020 for you.
Why not go over the 35 best pitch deck templates for startups we could think of to dig deep into every single company that has made their pitch deck a legacy?
Knowing how to improve your pitch deck in 2020 can be a tricky question. So much has happened this year and we’re not over the first quarter yet! What is there about the new year that could enhance a startup pitch deck?
Airbnb is going ahead with its IPO, and everyone is excited but cautious.
DoorDash quietly announced its IPO in late 2020, some were excited, but others were cautious. But, how did DoorDash get to this point?
Our team struggled with the same and has heard dozens of founders with these concerns... that's why we developed Slidebean Investor Finder
Join us as we go over the best 4 tips on how to write a cold email to investors.
It not only connected friends and family. MSN Messenger helped shape our adolescent years, from annoying nudges and animated emoticons to talking to your crush and expecting a reply.
A presentation outline is a roadmap to a more successful business pitch — a general plan that summarizes what you want to say to prospective customers, clients or investors. This presentation outline template will help you cover the key points of what to include in your slides.
Managing humans takes time.We are going to go over the hacks that we did to scale our staff and tips to know how to manage a remote team.
To stir your thoughts in the right direction, here’s a full read on why startups fail (and only some succeed)
Dan Bilzerian was named the King of Instagram. But at what cost did he earn that honor?
By the end of this article, that concern over an investor outreach not working will find a reliable alternative.
Bird seems to have failed in their attempt to change commuting.
Have you ever wondered what's the difference between a Seed Round vs. Series A? Or how startup funding rounds differ in general?
We put together a list of our best slide deck templates and examples divided by 5 categories:
The real story behind the Wolf of Wall Street: Jordan Belfort.
This article brings about the best investor search tools you can use for free.
When starting your company it's important to understand how exits work and what possible outcomes may look like.
Bernie Madoff: A $64 billion disaster that left immeasurable tragedy for thousands of victims, orchestrated by a Wall Street sociopath.
The promise that lies behind the question of what's a friends and family round? is a helpful answer. How to raise a friends and family round is a matter of getting loved ones around us to trust our business decisions.
Are accelerator programs still worth it when it comes to your startup?
Networking is a critical asset for a startup in its starting stages. That’s why figuring out how to network with investors effectively becomes quite a business need, especially for CEOs and startup founders.
Celebrity endorsements weren't enough for Quibi to succeed.
The dangers with convertible notes when raising capital.
We’re facing Slidebean vs. Pitch.com in this article. And we’ll start by tackling the question of what the best pitch deck tool should do.
Our top 6 tips on how to find investors are here to help you find the most suitable type of investor for your business - and give you a bit of valuable insight on the matter, too.
In a parallel universe where SlideRocket wasn't acquired, we would have been direct competitors. We will share their insights on how to sell a company for 2x its price.
It is undoubtedly the most popular channel for professionals in all areas right now. How to find investors on LinkedIn?
Apple might be the archetype of a rags-to-riches story. They seem to have done it all. This is Company Forensics: How Microsoft saved Apple from Bankruptcy.
Softbank, is a giant in multiple industries, with aggressive investment and fast expansion. But also, controversy and very costly mistakes. We'll tell you about Softbank in this episode of Company Forensics.
In the light of a supposed second round for Microsoft making phones, let's remember the OG Windows Phone.
Our app keeps evolving. Every version brings a new set of Slidebean features you might not be aware of!
Keeping the information updated about your job and the goals that you've achieved is necessary in order to prove that you're doing a fantastic job. This is when having a top-notch sales and marketing report steps in. It allows you to showcase your hard work with numbers that smile. Here's how to successfully build one.
In May 2020, Shopify became the largest Canadian public company when it surpassed the Royal Bank of Canada by raising its market capitalization to $120B.
She rocked magazine covers, and the media called her the female Steve Jobs. Theranos was worth billions. But it was all a lie.
No one saw it coming. At least not the millions of teenagers and young adults who played Fortnite on iPhones or iPads. On August 13, Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store for good. It is a high stakes dispute, and yet all this Fortnite affair is probably just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Welcome to Slidebean Forensics: the App Store battle.
Choosing a revenue model that fits you perfectly isn’t easy. As the framework of how a startup will generate income, a proper revenue model needs to consider prices, revenue sources, income and expense statements, and many other elements. It’s crucial to get this right, too, because a perfect match needs to help your business out in those diverse aspects. From sales to growth, choosing the right revenue model is especially vital for long term projections. It’s just central to any business model! To help your final choice, we put together the best 5 steps to a revenue model for startups. We hope these aid in making the right kind of difference for your company to make positive game-changing decisions.
The year is 2007. Imagine that you aim to disrupt the mobile phone market. You are sure that your idea is the way to go, and your team spends endless hours developing the star product. As you are on a business trip, you hear the news and reality sets in: someone has beaten you to it, and their idea is much, much better. That someone is Apple, and you are Google. Your choices are limited, so you decide to go back to the drawing board. Google had to reinvent its proposal for a smartphone. But this ended up being a good thing. In this episode of Forensics, we'll tell you all about how the first Android phone rose from the ashes of a failed project.
Robots you may see killing humans in recent Netflix shows, look a lot like robots that are available in the market. Yes, you may have seen that Black Mirror episode where a robotic dog hunts people, and you may notice the uncanny resemblance with Spot, the newest robot dog from Boston Dynamics.
An overview of financial models is a critical review of any business owner’s journey. Going into financial modeling permits forecasting the future of a company, for instance, which is especially useful in terms of startup performance. However, there are quite diverse examples of financial modeling.
Go-to-Market Strategy is a super important item investors really want to understand, yet most startups don’t really know what the term means. They struggle to describe their go-to-market strategy in a clear and focused manner.
$125 BN. That's how valuable Yahoo! was at its peak; that was more than Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors combined. And it all began as a hobby. Yahoo! brought us many of the services we take for granted today, including cloud storage and setting up your website. But the name Yahoo! has disappeared, consumed in the food chain that is the tech world. How did it get to this? We'll tell you all about Yahoo! in this episode of Company Forensics.
Tough times can leave us hopeless, and it might be challenging to see through setbacks in a way through which we know how to take action. Coming out of that rough patch is hard. There’s no point in denying it. But we hope these 7 steps on how to take action can kickstart your plans and get you to do what you desire the most, whether that’s at a personal or at a business level.
Most startups are obsessively focused on finding investors to back their idea. Someone to take a chance on them. Someone who wants to get behind the “next big thing.” But often founders are perplexed on how to find those investors, why it’s taking so long, and how to speed up the process. Let’s dive in.
Beautiful AI vs. Slidebean: A comparison lots of people want to make. Presentation software comes in so many forms now that there’s no point in sticking to an old program—especially not one we’ve used for years.
If you want to challenge the number one in any market, you need to have a good, rather an excellent product. But, most importantly, you need to believe in what you are bringing to the table. If not, you're doomed. In the mid-2000s, Microsoft was riding high on the successful Xbox and established itself as the leading software for PCs. So, to them, it seemed natural to take on and dominate another market: mp3 players. But they were up against the iPod. To win, they needed to have all the parts of the equation right from the start. They didn't: what followed was an embarrassing attempt at being cool, with odd mistakes and even more unusual colors. We'll tell you all about that other mp3 player, the Zune, in this episode of Forensics.
Podcasts enrich our lives. They certainly make commuting a much more enlightening experience, for example. Because of that and their late boom, it’s only natural we want to look at the best podcasts in 2020 list.
Creating a business model slide in a startup pitch deck can be a confusing puzzle to solve for many entrepreneurs. Therefore, and over the course of this article, we will not only define what a startup business model is, but we will also share key facts any presenter should consider when attempting to answer the question of just how to make the best of a business model slide for a business pitch deck.
Raising venture capital is no easy task; many variables need to come into play and align for a round of funding to happen. We've covered extensively what a pitch deck should have and what your financials should answer, but today we are going talk about the deal-breakers. The stuff that (ourselves included) didn't know was working against us until it was too late. Let's do it.
In life, there are some hard questions, like Pepsi or Coke, iPhone or Android, Mac or PC, but when it comes to music and podcasts, it seems the answer is clear: Spotify is king. How did this small company beat out giants like Apple at their own game?
SaaSOps stands for “software as a service with automated operations.” They provide extra protection to workers who use software as a service solution. SaaS apps are everywhere! A network at any company might have 100 or more interactions with SaaS solutions a day. Every time we chat with coworkers, download, upload, or log in to an app while collaborating on a cloud, those interactions are secured to keep user privacy and a company’s information safe. And SaaSOps is the way those interactions are secured.
If you’re an early-stage or pre-seed entrepreneur, we’re here to tell you that plenty of competitions and startup accelerator deadlines for 2021 are open.
Especially now, with virtual classrooms making it into daily reality for teachers and students, from kindergarten to doctoral programs everywhere, we need presentation software designed with education in mind. Here’s a summary of some of the best presentation software for teachers and students to save your day.
The backbone of Slidebean's growth has diligently and accurately tracking our customer acquisition costs. It's really easy to track where a customer came from when you are using digital channels. Some channels, however, are much harder to measure. We'll go over the tactics we've used to track conversions over the years, and a few hacks that might be useful for harder-to-track channels like YouTube.
One of the privileged industries experiencing growth during the current pandemic crisis is the gaming industry. Yet in this atmosphere of growth and opportunity, many were affected when all of a sudden the game-streaming platform Mixer, owned by Microsoft, announced that it was shutting down, recently in June. Does this mean Microsoft lost the battle for game-streaming services? Are they relying on Facebook’s social and streaming DNA; while they can focus on making games available to more people?
A financial model is an essential tool for every business owner that’s built in Excel or any other spreadsheet processor to calculate their business’ financial performance into the future. The calculation is typically based on the company’s historical performance, or assumptions about the future. How to build a financial model is usually answered into its sections SG&A (Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses), COGS (Cost of Goods Sold), Revenue, and CAPEX (Capital Expenditure).
It was bound to happen, and it just happened. Last June, Segway's president, Ms. Judy Cai, announced that the company was utterly ceasing the Segway PT production, or as it was initially named, the Segway HT, for "Human Transporter."
Historically, the stock market seemed impossible to get into, especially if you were a younger, inexperienced investor. But, in 2013, an app came to make trading more accessible. Robinhood had arrived. Its recipe became a magnet for rookie investors, with hundreds of thousands flocking to use it. Some called the software disrupting, while others called it democratizing. One thing was clear: Robinhood shook the trading world.
We deal with thousands of companies in the process of fundraising. Last year, I spoke to over 1,000 founders, and I've set a personal goal to beat that this year. These companies mostly come to me for office hours, and most of the time, their questions revolve around fundraising. One thousand people are enough to detect some patterns: the mistakes these companies are making when approaching their fundraising.
When we hear about Tesla, we think of cars. But the company is much more than Falcon doors and crazy trucks; Tesla aims to revolutionize how we see sustainable living. This special Company Forensics will cover Tesla's rise to the top as well as its vision for the future. If you want to learn more about Tesla, with excellent analysis, be sure to check out Ben's channel.
A third of startups end up closing shop for the simple reason that they run out of money. That’s why it’s important to know where you can afford to spend your money, and where you can’t afford to. In this article, we’ll show you the best practices to keep up with your SaaS budget!
We have talked about phone companies in the past. Remember those episodes about Blackberry or Motorola, companies who once were at the very top of the industry and somehow ended up falling in battle. Today, we will not exactly talk about a phone company but about a phone, yeah, a particular one. A phone that, for better or worse, had everyone's attention just by existing, just because it was created by one of the largest internet companies in the world: the Amazon Fire Phone.
Knowing how to create an excellent presentation doesn’t necessarily have to be a nerve-wracking exercise. It can actually be a measurable practice. So much so that we’ve narrowed the process down to give you at least 8 steps on how to prepare a business presentation deck.
America Online (AOL) was a company that helped shape the internet as we know it today. It became a giant of the Dotcom world and was even a part of the biggest corporate merger in history.
The best live chat software for startups can fundamentally assist a business with conversions. Especially in times as digital as today, virtual options for customer service, such as chatbot assistance and live chat support, are crucial for a business to stay competitive.
Nokia is a Finnish multinational corporation that goes all the way back to the nineteenth century and started with wood mills that produced mainly paper. Yes, the same Nokia that a hundred years later created cultural icons like the 1110 phone model a lot of you probably rocked at some point, back in the early 2000s.
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