Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The value proposition is a short statement that clearly communicates the target customer, the customer’s problem and the pain that it causes, the unique solution that addresses this problem, and the net benefit of this solution (value derived versus relative cost) from the customer's perspective. Partnership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These days, we all have to rely on a few trusted sources to digest and filter information, net out the relevant messages, and steer us with links to accurate details. They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves.

Cloud Computing 188

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. We have a regional focus here, and the market is underserved in venture capital, yet it's the second largest metropolis and DMA in the country. We'll even write a half a million check.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Geography - Rincon is now very active in the Bay Area.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Where I use the Discussion Group: * Ive not been very active in the discussion group on particular topics. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. There has certainly been a storm of activity over this question. Maybe this meme will help.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. Net neutrality (1:09:00).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It is a country that by foundation believes in capitalism as the best model of producing an equal society. Lawrence) both helped me master the rules of writing and tap into my creativity. From a young age I loved writing, which fueled my interests in reading, in politics and one day in blogging. We tell our kids this.

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