Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

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Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Finally for startups there’s a $31 billion available for programs that give small businesses access to credit, venture capital, and R&D dollars. This increased competition is good for hardware vendors and ultimately could create new businesses for entrepreneurs who want to become ISPs of their own.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep! But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital. How do you push valuation?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

Startup 97

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In attendance we had startups galore with VC's and Angle's mixing and mingling all through the night. TechZulu captured the entire VC/Angle panel and we also had a chance to interview every StartupDemo startup company that participated. VC/Angel Panel. However, you know we always bring a little something back just in case.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Funding / VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. As an early-stage VC I love this phase. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We're also not directly competitive with other commercial offerings, and in fact we have commercial software vendors who test their software with Jetty whenever either side does revisions. We've profitable and cash flow positive all the way through, whereas a VC-funded company tends to run losses while they build out their market.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Who do you view as your biggest competition? Performance marketing also demands accountability. When we raised our Series A, we put a lot of effort into meeting with VC’s to find the right fit for us. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels. Why aren’t there a half-dozen well-funded startups running up your tailpipe?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. Neither can any VC. Executive Summary. Why buy me?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. In my second company I had only 1 investor. I love that.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. What is the True Sentiment of VCs? Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! Now for every dollar a VC raises $2.50

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? because they are so focused on being better than their competition.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Venture Capital Funding 7. ► October (1) New Video!

Startup 40

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

If you were to run an analysis on me you’d find that I tend to follow a number of people in the VC industry as well as tech professionals. DataSift = platform for companies to develop cost-effective applications using this Twitter data to gain advantage relative to their competition. Twitter is a valuable and unique service.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. Governmental crackdowns Governments regularly use surveillance to track illicit behavior and curb or curtail activities. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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