Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

That strikes me as an attractive market for disruption over time. They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products. Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. Certain parts of it seem ripe for disruption sooner rather than later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

The authors recommend, and I support, the establishment of a transformation advisory board, including key board members, the CEO, and a couple of outside experts who understand the market, to set mandates, define milestones, and make funding decisions. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Time will tell.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. 5 years ago. 5 years ago.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. We built the first, networkable contact management product, Goldmine, to run on top of Novell. Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator. Explain that?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). It’s why opt-in marketing databases can be so incredibly valuable for companies like Gilt Groupe, One King’s Lane and AdoreMe. Calls are changing but not dying.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Yet if you look at some very successful market changes in the last few years it does point to technical prowess in the number 1 seat. In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product).

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. When Eric departed to pursue other things, a new partner stepped in with years of experience building and running community and product teams at AOL. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What that's done, is it's create a large hit in this space, at the top right end of the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I asked him about his thought process because Jason has already built a very successful business that has become the clear market leader in Marketing Automation for Phone Calls. When we first funded the company in 2009 we knew there was a big opportunity to help businesses automate marketing through phone channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly? Short answer – yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane with market cycles. If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. Money when you find product / market fit is an extreme differentiator.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. If you as a founder don’t think that appealing to women should be a part of your marketing strategy, you are wrong, and will lose. The Emotional Sell.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. 2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. had their first sales, which made us profitable. I knew, if you.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. What is Recycled Bride? month Recycled Bride Pro account.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Government customers abundantly waste both of these assets by negatively impacting a startup’s cash flows while causing it to spend unnecessary time participating in laborious approval processes and elongated sales cycles. This is nearly impossible to quickly determine when the sales process is rigidly defined by arbitrary rules.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2010

Sprint announced today that they are bringing 4G to seven new WiMAX markets one of which is LA. With 27 markets already equipped with 4G and more being planned for this year, Sprint is fulfilling its promise to light up major metropolitan areas with speeds that are up to 10 times faster1 than 3G. About Sprint Nextel.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Here is a quick list of just a few: With more than four decades of success, the International CES reaches across global markets, connects the industry and enables CE innovations to grow and thrive. Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” He talks about making things that people want & going after a big enough market. In revenue terms our first two years of sales were $2.1 I talked about some of that here.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We’ve all become so used to having Microsoft in our lives that we’ve started to take their products and services for granted. Since then, Microsoft has come out with product after product, always improving and innovating – and you can keep counting on it to keep doing so. That makes it the first in console sales.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. "Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. I’m sure others have, too.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We had been looking at the landscape of the mobile videogame market, and Epic games launched Infinity Blade 2, which was the best looking game we'd ever seen, let alone the best game for a small mobile device like the iPhone. At that point, we decided games like that should be the standard. What is the idea behind that effort?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2011

Large and growing market. Investors will expect market analysis data from a “credible unbiased third party” – that means a nationally known market research firm like Gartner, Forrester, IDC, or many others. Your own conviction that if you love the product, everyone will love the product, doesn’t count.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 11, 2015

Government prospects abundantly waste both, by negatively impacting a startup’s cash flows while causing it to spend unnecessary time participating in laborious approval processes and elongated sales cycles. It is downright criminal to lose a hard-fought sale because of crony capitalism. A Middle Ground.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. When Eric departed to pursue other things, a new partner stepped in with years of experience building and running community and product teams at AOL. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s a market, after all. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. The industry isn’t dying.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

KTSi) announced it had acquired the rail assets of Pentadyne Power, and set up shop targeting the use of flywheel technology in the rail market. We completed that agreement in 2009, and were taking the original Urenco design, and began to manufacturer that design. It's a very broad market.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners. We're investing in incredible teams that have built minimum viable product and need our help with game changing, bizdev deals, fundraising connections, or mentorships. You need to build that minimum viable product. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets.

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