Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. I wrote separately about that here – regarding “hiring people who punch above their weight class.”

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He can’t help himself: He’s Dave. I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. How to help his companies. When he writes them online his Tourette’s comes out and sometimes the substance gets lost in the style. My pal Dave has problems.

Startup 309

Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). You now own 20% of a company valued at $50 million but you’ve put in $4m to get that.

Guide 336

Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. I wish more startups were rigorous in defining market needs and competitive differentiate versus throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks but it seems as an industry we’re breeding the culture of the latter.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah, thanks for the interview. So, we decided to go out and do it.

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I hadn’t cried this much maybe since childhood. I wasn’t verklempt — I wept.

Writing 150

Writing Startup Design Training 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Would they build a world class team. Were they ambitious?

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

With perfect information and too much competition you pay up or they walk right down the street and get it from somebody else.” But if you take $10 on $30, $40 or even $50 G-d help you if you need to raise your next round and haven’t demonstrated amazing traction or you raise after the next correction. Now the AP class.

Funding 150

Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

We help companies reward their employees with perks. And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. What must a startup do to motivate you to write them a check? 6) Paige, why does the world need BetterWorks? . “We

Summary 246

Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. Any competition in LA? How many users?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. I went on to Oversee.net, and helped to build that company from 60 to 250 employees. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn?

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

What our program does, is if you get a question wrong, we help determine where you need help. If you're teaching classes of 32 maybe even 37 students, it's difficult to know where students are. However, on the group side, a class has 15-17 students. It's at a more granular level. Jake got a similar amount.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. Obviously to understand a “class&# of people you have to make broad generalizations. there is a nascent industry to try and help you with this, too. Here are mine. They’re in beta).

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I asked him if I could join his practice as the guy who could help him bridge technology & business. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand. We take MBAs.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Per the email below, Jeff leveraged his discussion with the industry expert to enlist his help with future investors.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

InfoChachkie

APRIL 3, 2012

Did you just meet the shy boy who spent his High School years writing in his journal or the boisterous verbal bully who used her wit to hide her insecurities? Maybe you spoke with the Class President voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ or the nerd who preferred video games over interpersonal relationships. Did they enjoy their jobs?

Entrepreneur 219

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Journal 219

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. Any competition in LA? How does it work?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition? Our platform helps them do that.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Some data like those in the studies I mentioned above might help influence our thinking but the answer is, in the end, subjective. I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. Or at least 73.6%

Startup 289

Startup Statistics Entrepreneur Study 289

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

This is why I am such a big fan of General Assembly both because they’re teaching more tangible skills but also because they’re working directly with employers to fund classes as well as to onboard the more successful GA students directly. His class reading lists could be a primer for any entrepreneur, not just MBAs.

Venture Capital 403

Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Working with startup lawyers also minimizes the risk of losing control of your adVenture, as they can help you avoid common fundraising and investor pitfalls. In addition, such an arrangement will further cement your lawyer’s incentive to help you succeed. This will allow you to defer a portion of your of up-front legal costs.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. He launched a business called Unsubscribe, which helped consumers deal with the deluge of email lists that one gets signed up to and get rid of them all.

Startup 247

Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. There is no competition. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Dec 26, 2009). What’s going to happen in the future?'

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. million in SF Bay Area ). In our regions?

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2021

How I Shifted from Just Counting Calories to Supercharging My Fitness Workouts This is part of a weight loss and fitness improvement series that I’m writing to share how I went from 222 pounds and unable to bike more than 20 minutes on a Peloton to 153 pounds and running 8–12 miles / day in just 18 months. On May 31st the competition ended.

Startup 302

Startup Screening Competition Training 302

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 12, 2010 This is part 1 of the series: 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. Pouring more money into the system isn’t helping because THE SYSTEM is broken. I poured myself into planning and I won the class-wide competition.

Class 340

Class Education Technical Review Writing 340