Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future).
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 11, 2018
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. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. How does this work?
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
The short video app builder was facing competition from the likes of Twitter’s Vine and Facebook’s Instagram video and MixBit. And after six months of insane design, coding and development, we have several new products to share with the world.” We tapped into our community and brainstormed with them in our office.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2013
I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. ” Case in point: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, SnapChat. You would figure out how to monetize later. I have said so for years.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2015
Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners. So often exclusivity on mega deals is of huge importance to your potential customers or business development partners. I have often asked for funding for this accelerated development.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 22, 2014
It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Connections?
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