socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We worked night and weekends, fleshed out the concept, and in July and August of 2008 we launched the product, took on some angel funding, and started the process. When they''re in there, they put in a summary of an athlete. What we''re focusing in on, is qualitative analysis. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. I recently reviewed a good summary of the advantages and disadvantages of an IPO exit strategy for startups in a widely-used textbook “ Entrepreneurship ,” by Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters, and Dean Shepherd. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

In the last few years, perhaps in reaction to the business integrity issues leading to the recession back in 2008, I am seeing a renewed focus on other less tangible attributes which can set your startup apart. While these may be necessary for funding, they may not be sufficient to make your startup the great success embodied in your vision.

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Capital Startup Education Customer 58

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The seeds of cheap cloud computing, social networking & mobile were planted and then the 2008 financial crisis brought a hurricane that swept much of the old, dead brush from the venture capital industry and ushered in a new phase perhaps best punctuated by Sequoia’s famous and now ironic presentation “ RIP Good Times.”.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As of today, I will have published an article here for entrepreneurs and startups every day for the last 1001 days, since I started Startup Professionals Musings near the close of 2008. It’s been a great ride, but it’s now time to dial it back a bit, and focus on some other priorities. A different message everywhere is no message.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Summary of Montgomery & Co’s views on the road ahead for tech M&A of venture backed companies: (the whole presentation is later in the post, which I suggest you look at because it has insightful data. Where I add commentary from myself or my fellow VC colleagues from our discussion after Jamie left I’ll put in red.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. Some 75% of LPs polled said they are concerned about investment pace, burn and valuations; for now, only 6% seem “deeply concerned.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. In Summary. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. There are 138 million smart phones in the US alone and … wait … 99 million tablets. Credit cards = less friction = more purchases = cha ching. I am now a VC.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

It’s Ok to grab the page title and a summary from a META element like “description&# (or up to 250 characters from an article’s first paragraph) to craft links, for example - but not more! Fetching or “HEAD’ing&# a resource no more than once a day should suffice for every Twitter app’s needs.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. That said, a summary below is available for those who prefer to read the notes version. We talk about all of this in the video. I love the concept.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. But the summary for you is: - get an intro. Then make sure to send out VERY high-level summary emails to update key investors on your company progress. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular. Tell a friend!

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► October (1) New Video! . Relaxing 2. Incubation 3. Go-to-Market 5. Spam Changes Everything 6.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

That was written in September 2008. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive. In Summary. For every bear there’s somebody else thinking they have an opportunity. That’s the beauty of markets and of capitalism. Remember the RIP Good Times by Sequoia ?

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AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. tl;dr summary. Summary version? The market had tanked. Unemployment likely to rise.

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Marketing Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. This had an impact on the 2008 election where apparently groups of DIGG publishers would promote positive stories about Obama and negative stories about Hillary Clinton (sound familiar?).

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