Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Getting involved with political events and fund raisers. Talking about how to inspire moms to get their children engaged with iPads and physical activity sets customized for their kids and based in part on their digital lives. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She helps write press releases. Sheryl Sandberg leans in?

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A huge amount of cryptocurrency is believed to be stored on a device that is now inaccessible, leaving customers in the dark as to what has happened to their funds. million of the company’s money due to suspicious activity. During the dispute, the courts took control of the contested funds. ” – Jennifer Robertson.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Others I have not.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

An email subscription is coming! The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. This brings the startup’s total funding to $3.85

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Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] None of the angels in my group is likely to write a check without hearing and believing a story about how something dramatic is about to happen. He is an active angel investor, and he manages several angel funds in Texas. . Story seems to be an artifact of the human brain, and soul.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. How can you practice timing? Ditto people you met a while back.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I define a "VC" as, "a professional investor who deploys third-party funds into relatively early-stage companies." All you need do to become an Angel is identify a promising venture and write a check. Thus, the total number of active VC professionals is actually smaller than the aggregate number of professional baseball athletes.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs. I don’t.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There have been a lot of entrepreneurs here in software and other industries, and interestingly enough there seem to be more self-funded, bootstrapped firms here, rather than those looking for venture capital to get off the group. You are self funded too, we recall. The traditional way to handle that is to write code.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). So for argument’s sake let’s triple the number of active VCs and call it 300. Yet their next fund had Facebook in it.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

But the key is that if you want to sell your company you need to have active relationships with potential future buyers. Mark Jeffrey - Q: “Is it more traditional to do your ESOP (employee stock option plan) before or after your angel or Series A funding?&# Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Here's an example of that kind of email. Most of them suffer from lack of activity, but it's worth a shot.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. You're quite an active investor, as well - are you still making investments?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

They might not actively “collude&# and say “let’s collectively keep the price down&# but in the resulting discussion pricing information will flow – whether intentional or not. When I was fund raising for my second company we had agreed a company-wide deal with Salesforce.com to use our product. I think so.

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Pricing Entrepreneur Technical Review Venture Capital 292

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”. You have said outloud anyone can send you an email, is that fair?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Look for the thoughtful challenge to your ideas, and practice active listening, when you are selling your vision. Never write something you wouldn’t want to come back to you. High three-digit intelligence has value.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I was recently speaking with some founders about their fund raising process. This experience made me want to dig into my archives, re-write & publish this piece. So my first advice is not to rush in the fund raising process. You’ll want to know: How knowledgeable / active is the partner in your specific space?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

If you have a team of 10 people then by definition 90% of the time spent on activities is not put in by you and on a team of 100 it’s 99%. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. They respond to email. It’s important to get buy in. They are askers.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2011

Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Look for the thoughtful challenge to your ideas, and practice active listening, when you are selling your vision. Never write something you wouldn’t want to come back to you. High three-digit intelligence has value.

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Steve Reich

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The company in question built mobile apps for a particular sport, and had 3 million downloads with nearly 2 million active users. We never did really figure out how to monetize the app itself, but the team kept up a weekly email dialogue with active users. I had been an advisor to the team on a periodic basis.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets. doing sports, and many other activities. We always focused on making the story bigger.”.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

My response was brief and straightforward, which is common of popular Quora answers (as discussed in How To Write An Effective Quora Answer ). Although my answer was off-the-cuff, the question caused me to consider the issue of raising entrepreneurial children in greater depth, which led me to write this series.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. But if you've spent all your money on the website for party supplies, you may not have the funds to have the site redone. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Their relationship with you is not as important as the one they have with the people that write them checks. How are you funded? They have you write a grant and send you into a venture capital firing squad, which is a group of VCs, engineers, and other business guys and was a lot like a firing squad.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I answered. ” Ezra was recently a Kauffman Fellow (meaning a tribe of aspiring VCs who get apprenticeship and have a cohort of classmates, many of whom will go on to be VCs), is a senior associate at a Chicago-based fund called Chicago Ventures and is an alum of my alma mater, University of Chicago, GSB. I just write.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2010

Stephanie: The recent horrid economy has made it very tough for true early stage entrepreneurs to get funding. I judge the business plan competition at that school, and so one day as we were packing up after her presentation, I casually asked her which of these she was going to write up and enter in the business plan competition. “Me?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

PR is an insanely valuable activity in early-stage companies. Fund Raising – No self respecting VC would admit (even to themselves) that they are influenced by what they read about you in the press. It’s much hard to get funded as a company nobody has heard of. There is no attribution on that inbound phone call.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

There are so many activities and events that have sprouted this year to support the thriving tech scene in Southern California. With all these many activities and so many people coming together it becomes inevitable that situations may arise that can interfere with the community’s best interest.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. We write and create our own content for the game. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

I write about sales often both because it’s the lifeblood of any organization and because in my experience it is the area in which more startups are least experienced or inclined. I also write and talk about it frequently because raising capital is a part of sales and this is important for entrepreneurs to understand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I felt excited to write because it’s a cathartic outlet for me and saves me from doing email. After watching the terrorist activities in Beirut and Paris and blog post seemed trite. I had a bunch of topics teed up now that I’m back in LA after 2 weeks of constant travel. But no words would come out this weekend.

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