Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

From the dollar you gave to the homeless guy on the way to meet a prospective client, to the new tie you bought to look professional, write down every single penny. Write down agreements. Get in the habit of thinking like a company founder and get promises in writing. Record every expense. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). One of them is profitability. Simplifying: Revenue -.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly. For example, everyone would agree that a cure for cancer is a worthy solution, if you can show evidence that it works, and can be replicated and sold for a rational cost and price in the market today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2013

From the dollar you gave to the homeless guy on the way to meet a prospective client, to the new tie you bought to look professional, write down every single penny. Write down agreements. Get in the habit of thinking like a company founder and get promises in writing. Record every expense. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

You’d be forgiven, then, for assuming the city is seeing a net loss of tech workers. After, it’s a balancing act for many in the industry, who rely on the same location that’s pricing them out. But, you’d be wrong, according to a new report out from LinkedIn. ” But Who’s Leaving?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

After all, if people feel more of a safety net for trying and not succeeding more people are bound to try in the first place and more innovation is almost inevitable. So I wondered out loud with the president if the government wanted to encourage more entrepreneurship — was there a way to help promote more of a culture accepting of failure?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

From the dollar you gave to the homeless guy on the way to meet a prospective client, to the new tie you bought to look professional, write down every single penny. Write down agreements. Get in the habit of thinking like a company founder and get promises in writing. Record every expense. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

Writing 99

Writing .Net Commerce Entrepreneur 99

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

This is not atypical for “middle men” who often take 15–30% of the value of the sale If you’re shaking your head and thinking, “duh” I promise you that even some of the most sophisticated people I know get off track on this issue of “gross revenue” versus “net revenue.” Not necessarily. The VC-backed businesses sometimes “blow up.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

From the dollar you gave to the homeless guy on the way to meet a prospective client, to the new tie you bought to look professional, write down every single penny. Write down agreements. Get in the habit of thinking like a company founder and get promises in writing. Record every expense. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

By far the most effective technique for improving your writing is simply carrying out user readability tests on every piece of content, and really listening to feedback. Test your pricing and packaging options, and tune them regularly. Use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to help you turn visitors into raving fans. Keep sentences short.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

As a startup, cost to rename your company and change existing collateral may be less than dealing with unmatched names or premium domain pricing. First you have to find the current owner, using Domain Tools , or other lookup functions available on the net. Get the agreement in writing as quickly as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? A few reasons. You should read this post. My view for VCs.

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Both Sides of the Table

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. But the problem for LPs is that as VCs write bigger checks with increased frequency, these firms go “back in the market” to raise funds more quickly than in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

We had the final terms of our agreement fairly well boxed in within a range of about 5-7% on price and within 30 days on move-in date. I obviously preferred the lowest price and I wanted the latest move-in date. She told me, “start with the price you want but the move in date he wants.&#. I told my agent. She way annoyed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

You can also establish authority by writing and public speaking. Scarcity is one of the best justifications for higher prices. The net effect is that influencers can rely more heavily on the less expensive “pull” marketing, rather than traditional “push” marketing. Show your ability to build customer consensus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of website applications today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.” The method some LPs use to compare funds is called PME (public market equivalent ) but honestly my experience has been that benchmarking is really challenging for LPs (and VCs alike).

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: By 2008, I was only a couple years away from the brain damage I suffered at CallWave, after the executive team turned down acquisition overtures from Google and Yahoo (I'll write about this colossal mistake in a future confessional article). com> 4/25/08.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Everyone wants to read a PDF, but few want to write or change them. The way to success in today's marketplace comes from bootstrapping your startup, and keeping your costs to an absolute minimum, and to take the time to build out a product which is clearly differentiated in features and price while the market catches up.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. And, I dont like to copy and paste.

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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. Unsurprisingly a whole generation of first time stock traders became jaded about not just Internet stocks but the entire public stock market system as many people lost a large portion of their net worth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

I am not writing about this out of the blue – this seems to be the topic of the day in my social stream based on blogs written, retweets rendered and attaboys handed out. But this often requires relatively large sums of money and it implies writing a check in a company whose future is uncertain. That might actually seem fair.

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