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APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

When you raise larger rounds there is more “due diligence,” which includes: calling customers, looking at financial metrics, doing cohort analysis (looking for trends like changes in churn rates), evaluating competitor positioning and understanding more of the competency of your executive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, “ Start a Successful Business ,” by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges. Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry. Tomorrow is never mentioned in the pitch.

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Custom Customer Technical Review Software Review 57

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Not necessarily.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. ” Just know the game you’re playing.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

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JULY 29, 2010

I’ve heard every excuse in the book and you’d be surprised how many people put this off. We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark. There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. Do it early.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

For parents, if you're interested in how your kids are doing, you can find out what their schedule is like, what homework is due when, what their grades are, and how they are progressing, plus you can communicate with their teachers. In the meantime, I was getting frustrated with the software being used at my son's school.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

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MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review ! I’ve been writing quite a bit about crypto lately, and this week I dug into a particularly interesting facet of the industry called DAOs. Last week, we talked about about the “de-stonkifying” of the market. Meta had a bad week — like history-making rough.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. That was a kerfuffle too. So did the media.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Richard recently published a new book, The Soul Of A Deal , talking about his experience with deal making and interviewing such others as J.J.Abrams, Deepak Chopra, Peter Guber, Reid Hoffman, Penn Jillette and many others on their own experiences. We caught up with Richard to learn more about the book and deal making.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review 147

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MARCH 30, 2010

As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. The Kindle has already revolutionized book reading.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

Startup 242

Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

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MARCH 22, 2010

. - Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - Do not equate that with them giving you glowing reviews – you have to earn that. Be respectful.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was mostly timing.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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JANUARY 28, 2011

Is it book smarts? Amy Chua, a Yale professor, wrote a book about raising children the “Chinese Mother&# way. I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story. million, a live product that was featured in iTunes and has gotten rave reviews. You have beautifully executed software.

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CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Especially to a company that sells books! If you’re not knowledgeable on the topic of this big IT migration to the cloud I’d suggest reading Nicholas Carr’s book, “ The Big Switch.&#. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Think about it.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. By the way, you can use, alter, rewrite … the code from this pamphlet as you like.

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