Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Press, Pause, Play ‘s message of mediocrity is one that musical hardware device maker of this year’s SXSW, Miselu , plans to overcome. . We can honestly say that it couldn’t have gone better for us with the phenomenal response we got from artists, press and potential partners. What are your next moves?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2010

From the press release: Financial Details of the Elluminate and Wimba Acquisitions. The Company expects the acquisition to be dilutive to full year 2010 by approximately ($0.33) to GAAP net income per diluted share and by approximately ($0.25) to non-GAAP net income per diluted share.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

We just knew that we were onto an idea that no one had thought of and we had better be in the press first because, of course, there is a first-mover advantage. Getting press is sales. We didn’t even think about how we were going to answer calls… or how we were going to respond to everybody. Flip Burgers. Number one is sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. And that’s what I love about her narrative. Here’s what I learned about Tracy: 1. She started her business from a personal need.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. Distribution costs have, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. One company might be growing its revenue at 50% per year and the other might be growing at 5% per year.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

Image credit: Associated Press. Attempting to determine the combined value of the entities is a worthwhile exercise because it forces both parties to think through the acquisition and contemplate how the combined company would work together. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

I’m not saying that you need a 30-tab Excel spreadsheet modeling out 5 year’s of detailed profit & loss accounts with gross and net margins that would be realistic for year 5. They read the press releases of competitors or see them at a trade show and race to keep up with their feature sets.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

But the status symbol of this milestone is driving investors, entrepreneurs, the press and everybody into thinking you magically can achieve this status in a matter of a few years with a great team and an astounding idea. The truth is that many “unicorns” have reached the status solely because the funding markets have said so.

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MARCH 1, 2016

In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays. LPs have followed the recent press about the over-valuation and over-funding of the startup industry, and they experience these phenomena first hand. LPs See The Over-Valuations and Don’t Like It.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But throughout the transition I had my safety net. 2) RightScale crossed the chasm pretty quickly from early adopters (Animoto and Zynga) to mainstream customers (The Associated Press and A&E Television Networks). The transition [from Citrix Online] to RightScale was similar. RightScale came about way fast and before I felt ready.

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APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Even investors and experienced founders are caught in the same net as recently educated graduates looking to build companies. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Take the U.S. category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. Accelerating the commercialization of university research.

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Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Adam states that Bitcoin is now a large portion of his personal net wealth and has to date, backed 11 companies through Boost. Despite bad press (Silk Road, Mt Gox, etc.) Our panelists go down the line with their financial involvement with the currency itself, and a quick snapshot of what their portfolios look like.

Startup 104

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

That said, there are times where you need to cast a wider net. I doubt they’d be willing to press harder in questioning and/or be more attuned to negative signals that the reference might be implying but not actually saying. Here’s what you need to know: Executive recruiters are great at sourcing candidates.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s how we package our company story and drive our press coverage. I have a high fear of failure that acts as my safety net. Creativity is what helps us think of our ideas in the first place. It’s what helps us imagine what feature sets would be most appealing.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

One or both of your parents may have the personality of an entrepreneur, but if their parents were struggling entrepreneurs who put in long¬-hours and netted meager returns, then your parents may have rejected their latent entrepreneurial tendencies. Like a successful entrepreneur, Winston did not believe his own press clippings.

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