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Comment réaliser un bon business plan pour lever des fonds. How to write a killer deck, and get funded. Immad Akhund is the CEO and co-founder of Heyzap, the leading Social Games distribution platform beyond Facebook.

How to write a killer deck, and get funded

Heyzap has raised $3.5 million to date and is Immad’s third Startup, He will be writing a series of articles for Lessons Learned. I have advised a number of Web companies on their way to raise money. I am often mentally ‘face-palming’ as they stagger through their initial pitch. Helping entrepreneurs is something I am passionate about. Knowing how to comfortably raise funding removes the distracting worry of money. The key preparation material that most people create for pitching potential investors is a presentation deck.

The two most important aspects of pitching are: 1) being confident and 2) conveying a consistent powerful story. Confidence You must firmly know that you are doing a great thing for the potential investors. Story It is vitally important to weave a story through your deck. Structure Iteration Creating the deck should take one or two days. Memorize your pitch. HOWTO: Spend your investors’ money – stu.mp. I’ve invested in two startups and advise, officially and unofficially, a dozen or so other startups.

HOWTO: Spend your investors’ money – stu.mp

Recently, a company that I’m involved with, attachments.me, raised $500,000 from Foundry Group. Since their raise, the two cofounders, Ben and Jesse, have been on a tear adding features, solidifying the infrastructure, and ramping things up to a public beta. Attachments.me is a unique consumer service in that a single user could have gigabytes of data to crawl across multiple accounts. As a result of this unique challenge, Ben has been spending a great deal of time working out how the underlying infrastructure is going to scale.

This, of course, involves spinning up a decent amount of servers on AWS. But, it’s a good question, and I get asked it often. If you took total monthly burn and divided it by total number of employees, how much would you expect the per-employee burn be? UPDATE: A lot of people have questioned the $12,000 per month, per employee number. Quick UX : évaluation rapide de l’expérience utilisateur. Pour des professionnels, la nécessité d’effectuer son travail avec efficacité et rapidité est une réalité assez évidente.

Quick UX : évaluation rapide de l’expérience utilisateur

Les domaines de l’UX (User eXperience = expérience utilisateur) n’échappent évidemment pas à cette règle, d’où l’élaboration de diverses techniques pour mettre en place des processus d’évaluation/conception UX qui prennent moins de temps, donc moins d’argent. Certains experts anglo-saxons appellent ces méthodes « Quick UX reviews« , « Quick UX heuristics« , « the Quick UX way » etc. Check-list ergonomique Les ergonomes ont mis au point divers critères d’utilisabilité et s’appuient sur ces critères, notamment pour concevoir des outils d’évaluation, de type check-list ergonomique.

Dans le même esprit, on peut utiliser ce genre de check-list en considérant l’expérience utilisateur globale Evaluer l’UX : une vision plus globale L’expérience utilisateur recouvre des problématiques plus larges que l’ergonomie (par ailleurs elle-même étant souvent réduite à l’utilisabilité).