Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Bentonville, AR, retailer announced Thursday it has acquired Cornershop, an on-demand online service that delivers products from supermarkets, pharmacies, and specialty shops in Mexico and Chile, for $225 million. “We Walmart is taking the e-commerce delivery business south of the border.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

Each of these decisions could be a blog post in its own right but for today I want to avoid tactical advice and offer something more about your temperament as you wade through complexity and deal with decisions that affects the lives and the livelihoods of others. It was the thoughtful response of an empathetic leader.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Now following a $62 million round of funding led by Battery Ventures last month, the company is worth roughly $800 million, according to people with knowledge of the investment, and is on its way to becoming Los Angeles’ next billion-dollar business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Working for a well-funded existing company, or pursuing your dream as a hobby, may be more satisfying and productive. Assess your own resources as well as funding sources. More important than a business plan may be early networking, a web site and blog, and building relationships with key industry experts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I even prefer to fund entrepreneurs who have experience some level of set-backs in their careers or startups because I think it brings a humility to decision-making that I find healthy. You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site. READ MORE>>

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Every month, there’s news of another partnership among carmakers like GM and tech companies such as Uber, as they vie for dominant roles in a transportation future where individual car ownership may largely give way to rides-on-demand from fleets of autonomous and tech-enabled vehicles.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. I know many super experienced entrepreneurs who don’t understand the basics of how fund size and age can affect them so I thought it was worth establishing a baseline.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. pension funds) with little appetite for experimentation with new managers and more funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

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. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Blogging has gone through many iterations.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. Funding great entrepreneurs. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. your business on the map with national news coverage and blog buzz for only $999 a. to San Diego. experts, developers, and many, many others.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2019

The on-demand delivery war in retail is on. In its quarterly earnings call Thursday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) announced it would switch to one-day shipping for Prime members, halving the time the 100 million-plus people who subscribe to the service must wait before receiving their purchases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Boy wearing Oculus Rift via Wikipedia As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. He points out that the word crowd precedes funding in crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Brad Feld hadn’t written his seminal “ term sheet series &# and The Funded hadn’t yet been created. NOTE: In the video I talked about how VC’s and entrepreneurs decide the total number of shares at the first major funding round and why it’s often a high number. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Graphcore’s big haul is a notable milestone in the recent revival of investor interest in computer hardware, due to the demand for ever-greater processing capacity that can maximize the potential of. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. They might own 8% of your company after the first funding but demand up to 33-50% of your next round of financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Chipmakers and software developers leapt to fill that demand , and in turn they helped spur a sea change in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Artificial Inteligence Demand Software Development Software 62

Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

Puls Technologies , whose on-demand technicians repair broken smartphones and install connected home devices, announced today it has raised $50 million to expand its reach as a unified source of device maintenance and consumer support.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t. How long is the window open?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. The financing brings Postmates’ total funding to nearly $1 billion. The business has closed a $3.85 Landline isn’t just a few buses with startup branding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. Don’t let the demands of seasonal fluctuations spoil the party. Do your planning now, and drive your business to new highs, rather than letting the demands drag you down.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines. Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors. Sony, the iPod.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. When you look at the industry as a whole, there are couple of well-funded players. It also supports blogs. How's the firm funded and financed?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Now, as demand for engineered DNA rises, a handful of startups are vying to become the go-to provider for researchers looking for improved versions of the DNA sequences. Biologists have been using artificially created DNA, produced through what’s known as chemical DNA synthesis, as a research tool for decades.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Among the many initiatives in Clinton’s education platform is proposed federal funding to provide computer science lessons to every public school student in the country—something Clinton says the majority of U.S. If that policy goes forward, edtech companies might be enlisted to help those schools accommodate a flood of new student demand.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. How's this new venture funded--and actually, how was ModernMom funded? What is Gloss Network? It's a lot of content, but then again we have lots of sites.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. Talk a bit about your recent funding. Where did you get the funding?

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