Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Most public shells ready for sale are not listed on a national securities exchange, but are instead traded in a less glamorous setting, such as the OTC Bulletin Board. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? These looming constraints can turn your startup dream into a nightmare, all to increase funding.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

The firm also named Steward Easterby as VP of Sales; Bill Lepter as VP of Business Intelligence; and Star Marcus as VP of Human Resources. Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

They can also help raise larger rounds of capital and often at higher prices. 1 party = low price. Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. The price / share is actually $2.40 (not $3.00), which is $3,000,000 pre-money / 1,250,000 shares (because you had to create the 250,000 share options). Note that it might be even less than $1.6m

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

Most public shells ready for sale are not listed on a national securities exchange, but are instead traded in a less glamorous setting, such as the OTC Bulletin Board. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? These looming constraints can turn your startup dream into a nightmare, all to increase funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

Most public shells ready for sale are not listed on a national securities exchange, but are instead traded in a less glamorous setting, such as the OTC Bulletin Board. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? These looming constraints can turn your startup dream into a nightmare, all to increase funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

However, in 2006, my own son got cancer, and I was thrown into the sad state of affairs that goes into that. You can help by donating, but you can also go to our site, and buy what we think is going to be the best prices in the world for both new and used stuff. We're now allowing you to donate a game, and also to buy a game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

Most public shells ready for sale are not listed on a national securities exchange, but are instead traded in a less glamorous setting, such as the OTC Bulletin Board. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? These looming constraints can turn your startup dream into a nightmare, all to increase funding. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Let’s start with how much value you think you’ll create for your customer if they use your product in terms of hours saved, costs avoided, extra sales, better conversion rates or whatever. Or do you need to raise prices?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

During the summer of 2006, I joined RedMojo as an Advisor. Consistent with the advice I outline in Free Advice Worth Half The Price , I was paid solely in equity. Equity funding would have diluted the Founders while simultaneously complicating the company’s equity structure, thus making a potential sale of the company more cumbersome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and value themselves today internally at $4B or more.

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Startup Course Yahoo Funding 97

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). Why does vintage matter to you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and value themselves today internally at $4B.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. Every major VC has a stable of portfolio companies that were “in a holding pattern” – too small for an IPO yet the VCs didn’t want to sell them cheaply in a fire sale.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Entrepreneurism / Monetization music, Revenue, Sales. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. Yes, this was stupid.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Pricing and revenue? It is leads you need to make sales in B2B. December 2006 (17). November 2006 (19). October 2006 (31). September 2006 (9). System performance and uptime. User acquisition via each method you use. Aggregate metrics. Engagement. Content creation? Ads and monetization? August 2007 (7).

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. Otis Chandler – Founder and CEO of Goodreads. anything.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Whether it be product development, marketing, sales, negotiating or raising capital, I find myself trying harder to not get bogged down with unnecessary details. no complex contracts or pricing schemes) or adopt (i.e.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In 2006 when I was a budding entrepreneur building my second startup I ran into a young (ish) enthusiastic founder of an electronic signature company called EchoSign. I know it will be hard for you to believe in 2015 but in 2006 Palo Alto (where I lived) was kind of dead. We shared information about building sales teams.

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SaaS Venture Capital Conference Technical Review 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral. maybe I own 20% of the company) or $5 million at a $20 million post (I own 25%) shouldn’t I block that sale of a company a cheap price? This is the “Patzer Problem.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is about $46 billion.

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