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Mahesh Bhatia (Early-stage pitch decks) Entrepreneurial Executive, Been a Founder

San Francisco Bay Area

My answers to several hundred questions related to tech startups, entrepreneurship, etc. can be found here: http://www.quora.com/Mahesh-Bhatia You can schedule time with me for brainstorming related to your tech venture. Ideal for pre-accelerator, pre-seed, pre-angel startups or if you are employees at a large tech company or academic researchers excited about an idea and itching to take the entrepreneurial plunge. I enjoy working with startup co-founders to help refine their new venture ideas. I do this by asking a lot of questions around their market assumptions, business model, technology advantages, competitive positioning vs incumbents and other startups, etc. Occasionally, I introduce some of the more compelling ventures to angel investors…

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Mahesh Bhatia (Early-stage pitch decks)

San Francisco Bay Area

My answers to several hundred questions related to tech startups, entrepreneurship, etc. can be found here:
http://www.quora.com/Mahesh-Bhatia

You can schedule time with me for brainstorming related to your tech venture.

Ideal for pre-accelerator, pre-seed, pre-angel startups or if you are employees at a large tech company or academic researchers excited about an idea and itching to take the entrepreneurial plunge.

I enjoy working with startup co-founders to help refine their new venture ideas. I do this by asking a lot of questions around their market assumptions, business model, technology advantages, competitive positioning vs incumbents and other startups, etc. Occasionally, I introduce some of the more compelling ventures to angel investors and early-stage VCs in my professional network.

I have a curious mind, background in business (starting and growing companies) and academia (graduate degrees from Stanford, MIT, and IIT-Madras), and a straight-shooter approach.

More details about me can be found here:
www.linkedin.com/in/mmbhatia

$2.00/min

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Feedback/Brainstorming Your Tech Venture Idea

Being devil's advocate and mentor to 50+ Stanford graduate student teams working on technology venture business plans in a variety of sectors (B2B and B2C) over the last decade. Every year, a dozen teams are formed of grad students with diverse academic backgrounds and work experience. They present their plans to a panel of reputed Silicon Valley VCs at end of quarter. My mentoring involves testing team's understanding of size of market opportunity, their knowledge of current and potential competitors, defensibility of their technology/intellectual property, and their fundamental assumptions about what it will take to attract customers.

http://www.quora.com/Mahesh-Bhatia/answers

Feedback on Your Startup's Pitch Deck to Investors

Typically, in a 30-minute session I can provide your feedback to improve your pitch deck. I have done this for over a hundred startups over the last 10 years.

Mentoring Founders at Early-Stage Startups

I enjoy working with startup co-founders to help refine their new venture ideas. I do this by asking a lot of questions around their market assumptions, business model, technology advantages, competitive positioning vs incumbents and other startups, etc. Occasionally, I introduce some of the more compelling ventures to angel investors and early-stage VCs in my professional network.

Member since November 2012