TechEmpower
AUGUST 21, 2023
Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 2, 2021
As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. The real challenge is to win massive consumer preference repeatedly. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 30, 2016
There is a general guideline of how much investors want to own in order to invest in your company and the norm is 15–30% with the most common range 20–25% per early stage round. Because investors need to imagine making a minimum of 10x their invested capital and early-stage investors are shooting for even higher multiples.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
Or, as always, summary notes available below. My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. “My Brad on blogging.
InfoChachkie
AUGUST 11, 2011
I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. Long-term, we may start investing in some of these companies as they go through.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day.
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