Company Forensics | Slidebean

Investors blindly trusted her. She rocked magazine covers, and the media called her the female Steve Jobs. Her company was worth billions. But it was all a lie. So, how did Elizabeth Holmes fool the entire world?

From his poker skills to his upbringing, many question what's real and what isn't about Dan Bilzerian's life. 

What are the Pandora Papers and what do they imply for the people involved? 

Paul Silva, managing partner at River Valley investors shares useful tips to avoid deal-breakers when pitching your business to investors. 

Company Forensics: How to raise money as a company located outside the US? Tips and advice from an early-stage investor. 

Superpeer announced a $2M round in early 2020 and an $8M follow up round in November 2020- and our guest for today's episode is Devrim Yasar, the CEO.

Facebook is suing Apple. China bans booming platform Clubhouse. 

Today, Jackpocket announced their Series C round, $50 million dollars, raised on the backbone of a 4x annual growth in sales. We held an interview with Pete Sullivan, CEO, and founder. 

Trump & Parler banned. Signal can’t keep up. GoDaddy is a troll.

Welcome to the very first episode of “Forensics Flash News”, Slidebean's brand new show.

Google is unionizing. Alibaba CEO missing. Facebook sued.

Are accelerators still the way to go when it comes to Startups? We talked about this with Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures.

In a very unexpected turn of events, once competitors Caya and Mike Lingle (Sliderocket founder) share an interesting conversation around selling your company at twice its price. 

The reasons why BlackBerrys failed staying as the coolest communication devices aren’t exclusive to them. When one of the biggest phone companies plummets to oblivion, it’s worth analyzing.  Find out the story here!

“It’s a Kodak moment!” was what we used to say when our cameras captured something special. For decades, Kodak dominated the world of photography, but in 2012, it declared bankruptcy. So, what happened?

If you are in your house (which you should be!) chances are you’ve used some sort of video call to talk with family, friends or even go to school. And, most likely, it’s been Zoom. Why is everybody using Zoom? Let’s find out how it became successful in this episode

Motorola Company was a pioneer in mobile communications and helped shape entire markets with groundbreaking products. But now, it’s gone

Decades ago, Atari was THE videogame console. It helped develop the gaming world in the U.S., with its great 2600 console and games such as Pong and Space Invaders. But then a little alien came along, the market crashed, and chaos ensued.

For someone outside the startup ecosystem, the amounts of money Startups raise just seem obscene. Some companies (Uber, WeWork) raise BILLIONS. Even smaller companies deal with rounds in the millions of dollars, and valuations in the hundreds of millions. Why do investors put so much money in these tech startups? 

In this episode of Company Forensics, we’ll talk about one of the coolest clothing brands in the world: The North Face.

How does the biggest toy store in the world end up in bankruptcy? It’s a question worth answering.

2020 caught most of us off guard. A seemingly booming economy now seems to be headed towards a recession, which will inevitably leave a lot of people unemployed across many industries. 

More importantly, 2020 is likely to represent one of the most essential 'resets' the economy will go through. This instability, this chaos, is a ladder; for witty entrepreneurs to find opportunities, to create or evolve their business and monetize this revolution

Why did forever 21 go bankrupt?  

It was the embodiment of the American dream. A migrant couple who starts from scratch and rises to the top of the clothing retail industry. But then, that dream plummets to the ground.

If you were a teenager in the early 2000s, you will remember there was a site that transformed the concept of a social network: MySpace. 

However, nowadays it is just a distant memory of a fun platform we used in simpler times. So, what happened? What made them fall and what can we learn from their story?

Can 60 seconds end a unicorn that managed to raise $120 million? If you ask Doug Evans, founder of Juicero, he will say yes.

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.

What happened to Vine? 🤳🏼 

 In this episode of Startup Forensics, we’re going to throwback to Vine and dig into some key aspects of its rise and fall, including Twitter’s acquisition of the company, along with some product, and competition analysis.

Let's just throw it out there: being a startup CEO is one of the most demanding and mentally exhausting jobs ever. The decisions you make, affect not only the future of your company but the future of the people who trust you to make the right decisions.

Anonymous messages and local context were the perfect mix to make the popular social network, YikYak, come to life in 2013. They were also the poison to kill it and to write on its tombstone the epitaph of: died too young and too soon.

You started a business and you want to compensate your early employees. Or you've joined a startup and were offered stock options as part of your compensation. How do those work?

In this episode, we are going to cover writing a first investor pitch deck. From calculating your market to figuring out your go-to-market strategy, financials, etc... and how to translate them into writing in the format that investors expect.  

It's been about a year since Slidebean’s first Youtube video breakthrough. Since then, they’ve added around 20,000 subscribers, and their videos have been watched over 1.7MM times. To celebrate their success, we’re collaborating with Slidebean to host a Fireside Chat in New York City on October 10th featuring Caya, founder of Slidebean, and Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit. from DreamIt Ventures.