Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

With Google, you get all the storage you need in the cloud for free. Of course, not all new businesses can benefit from all these recommendations, so think carefully about what you can do, and what you can’t. Gone are the days of required $50K computer servers onsite, with big software license fees up-front.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. And while the US had FANG (Facebook, Amazon/Apple, Netflix and Google) China has BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent). Baidu alone raised $3.2

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. Number two, is our pricing. Our new product competes with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. We recently launched Idrive Sync, which performs better than Dropbox, and is very competitive in pricing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As the school year kicks off for college students, one of the big tasks of the year is buying books for their courses. Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. You've got to find each one, and research them online.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). What is it, really?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Offer an alliance with competitors to expand the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

And even when calculated correctly often CAC’s are assumed to be constant but of course they’re not. If you acquire 10 customers a month at $100 per customer and this scales to 100 customers at the same price you may make assumptions about 1,000 customers that don’t hold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2021

Businesses which ignore this contract are excluded from consideration, despite maybe having a logically better product or price. Of course, its primary role is still to allow people to connect, organize, and engage, as well as provide startups with rich insights they might otherwise miss. Enlist disciples and a congregation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. But of course we all need the space to be young, to experiment, to do stupid things and not to have it define our entire future. Benchmark deserves the biggest credit for writing a $12 million check at what then seemed a healthy price to get into Snapchat. Mostly kidding.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. If I’m in GroupMe’s shoes (and I’ve never met the founders) I think I’d be a seller at the price reportedly paid by Skype. Google has Google Voice. There is no right or wrong answer.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. Brett Crosby: When I was at Google, there were a couple of things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. Danielle Steel of course being Tom Perkins ex wife. Is Google to blame?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

But if you raise the money at the big price (or any price) please go in with the expectation that you are going to build a large, long-term business. Which is why the mega valuations you read about are almost always by companies with enormous valuations and/or cash on hand: Google, Microsoft, Cisco, etc. Think about it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Excite, MSN and eventually Google. The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!,

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Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?”

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Creators can take any course of interest on-demand by purchasing it through our website. How does it work? Take us through your features?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2013

In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. Finally, we want it cheap (of course). I found dozens of software packages available on the Internet for free download, or a nominal price.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Where self-driving technologies under development at big tech companies like Google (and at car-makers like Audi and Mercedes-Benz) must master the automotive rules of the road, including construction zones and ill-defined lanes, Brain Corp.’s Brain Corp. s approach is similar to Amazon Robotics (previously Kiva Systems). While Brain Corp.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 23, 2016

A quick zip through the Zillow app will yield listings in your desired neighborhood, price range. Pictures, address, square footage, bedrooms, and price. It even shows you if the price has been cut, how long the home has been on the market, and your estimated mortgage payment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Not Google. They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered. Open source became a movement – a mentality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This can be high risk if your solution doesn’t work, or your price is more painful than the problem. Proactively implementing new business models, like subscriptions and “freemium” pricing, are good risks, while linearly lowering old product prices is a bad risk. Partner with a competitor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. Finally, we want it cheap (of course). I found dozens of software packages available on the Internet for free download, or a nominal price.

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Tool Software Review Social Network Email 92

Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

The boy's father, my colleague, was quick to exclaim, "He was Googled!" The dad was, of course, alluding to Google's frequently-used strategy to make available free services in otherwise paid markets to rattle competition and gain market share for advertising-supported products. "Some kid is trying to screw us," he elaborated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2011

This can be high risk if your solution doesn’t work, or your price is more painful than the problem. Proactively implementing new business models, like subscriptions and “freemium” pricing, are good risks, while linearly lowering old product prices is a bad risk. Partner with a competitor.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Of course it’s important to equip your partners and employees with the best technology to do their jobs, but it’s also important to find computers that are easily portable and affordable for your current budget. This works if you base much of your work on online platforms or cloud software like Google Docs, Dropbox, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). Of course strongest industry players don’t stand still. Public-company tech investors creates competition in late-stage financings and these investors can afford to be less price sensitive if they choose. and the bigger funds can’t get in directly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Even Google couldn’t do that, so I would deem that not a credible strategy. Five-year revenues, based on your volumes and prices, should penetrate at least 10 percent of the target market segment. Here are some key rules of thumb from my own experience: Financial projections must show a rational business strategy.

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