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. Email updates frequently.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Few of your contacts will be willing to use their valuable social or political capital helping you with a sales effort, and you will definitely strain your relationship with the intermediary if not a close friend. Email readers, continue here…] Using your attorney or accountant to find who is close to the decision maker sometimes works.

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Ideas Sales Competition Venture Capital 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

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. Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. How to help his companies.

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Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

Berkonomics

MAY 29, 2014

Business plans are dynamic instruments used on a regular basis to help owners and executives to plan for future growth, and. Included in a business plan are financials, competitive landscape, marketing plans, and projected sales to name a few. Helps you to be more focused. assess past performances. Determines feasibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

I thought I’d write a post about how to talk about valuation at a startup and give you some sense of what might be on the mind of the person considering funding you. Having a price helps them to evaluate the deal better. Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Invest 324

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days. When should a VC invest?

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them.

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Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. 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. In Summary.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Competitive sportswoman. Kara on one side of the table showing me market sizes, competitive dynamics, product roadmaps, pricing plans for physical products with COGS and gross margins. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She helps write press releases. Remember, it’s about Lines, Not Dots. Stanford MBA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. I’ve been stuck in email hell for quite some time.

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Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Hopefully this straightforward format will help you avoid overly obtuse verbiage, while keeping your executive summary to two pages. Competition. Who do I write the check to and where do I send it? Jeff Carmody, Co-Founder of Agility Capital and a successful institutional investor, provided me with the outline shown below.

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Venture Capital Summary Technical Review Template 211

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. At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. Keeping it to 8–10 helps you manage the public information flow that will be broader if you see 20 firms and also help you prioritize resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. Hi, I’m writing this plan because.”

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Writing Summary Ideas Research 97

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 am committed to finding ways to help graduates get jobs. You can go.

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Writing Startup Design Training 150

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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Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. Write Your Own Playbook. We have never done a press release.

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Marketing Blogging Startup Venture Capital 233

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

All you need do to become an Angel is identify a promising venture and write a check. This probably won't lead directly to a job as a VC, but it will help you execute the next task. Hang Out With VCs - VCs love free help. This process helped me determine to what extent I enjoyed the transition from operator to investor.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Invest RSS 242

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Make sure you have the five basic platform tools in place well before the launch – social media profiles with a great headshot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), website (with blog), business cards, email signature block, and an email address on your domain name. Building your home base with personal and product traction.

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Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. We are trying to keep it competitive.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. The second thing it allows them to do is save money, because the app helps them with couponing, through partnerships and local deals we have.

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Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

As an entrepreneur, I helped create companies which achieved two IPOs and two trade sales totaling $385 million. Hopefully this article and the accompanying six-minute video will help you avoid learning these mission-critical lessons the hard way. Thus, you have negotiating leverage as long as a legitimate, competitive threat exists.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Make sure you have the five basic platform tools in place well before the launch – social media profiles with a great headshot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), website (with blog), business cards, email signature block, and an email address on your domain name. Building your home base with personal and product traction.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

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. <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> billion).

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Don’t focus too much on the competition. Even if you can find someone willing to help, it’s a very, very expensive proposition. Never write something you wouldn’t want to come back to you. Never write something you wouldn’t want to come back to you. High three-digit intelligence has value.

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Ideas 97

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. Any competition in LA? We haven’t identified any competition in LA, specifically. Why did you venture into fitness?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. So we like to behave like we don’t know any better than you – we can just bring an outside perspective to help spar you and make you a better decision-maker through the process. That’s healthy.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2011

Don’t focus too much on the competition. Even if you can find someone willing to help, it’s a very, very expensive proposition. Never write something you wouldn’t want to come back to you. Never write something you wouldn’t want to come back to you. High three-digit intelligence has value.

Startup 96

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Writing 96

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The day after we shut down the site, we got an email from this company, saying they had a big opportunity they'd like to talk to us about. Joey Flores: For starters, we're smart enough not to believe anything until it is in writing. The number one thing we are doing is making a competitive listening experience for our users.

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Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

A friend helped him get out of this situation and changed Matt’s life forever. He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. o Put a timeframe/money – competition in the picture. The answer?

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Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Then competition. Tell the board that you’re going with this new structure because you really want to be sure that while you have all these talented people assembled you want to maximize the impact that they can have in helping you set your strategy. We started with our financial statements. I appreciate your input.&#

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Startup Slides Guide Writing 331

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Do you have an application that helps mobile developers build HTML5 apps?

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

The name came from the earliest iteration of our product, which helped groups of people pool money for shared expenses. The two also wanted technology that could help them collect money from friends for school/social groups and weekend trips. Since then our product has shifted to serving individuals, small businesses, and non-profits.

Startup 71

Startup Tool Capital Customer 71

InfoChachkie

APRIL 3, 2012

When the going gets tough (as it always does at any startup) the Wantrepreneurs get busy emailing their resumes to prospective employers. 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? Did they enjoy their jobs?

Entrepreneur 219

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Journal 219

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

The Amplify partners are dedicated to helping their entrepreneurs build the best companies possible and they throw themselves into it with great passion. We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103