Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry. Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

It’s encouraging to know that there are still great VC firms like KV that are looking to make these short of big bets on shaping the future. For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic. All investors, including the VC firm, lost everything.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Dat Do: We produce valuation software that solves a lot of complex valuation issues for privately held companies, backed by venture capital and private equity. Dat Do: It would be the VCs, the PEs, management of privately held companies. How to price it. What does your company do? That's my background in valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He created demand.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Understanding the effect of perceived discounts, multiple product levels, price anchoring, and other. Having the.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. Theres many good companys that will never turn into a $100M VC kind of company. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2017

The world of mobile apps has added serious challenges for software developers, who don't just have to deal with crashes�they have to deal with slow performance, strange hangs, multiple carrier networks, and more. Even when a VC comes to you with a term sheet, and say that their terms are typical, you don't have to take them.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

There are many service providers such as software developers who will not work for equity unless an investment has been made by an institutional fund. According to a report by Ernst & Young ”Although VC-backed activity increased, (in 2010) the median time from initial VC financing to an IPO exit remains long.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

There are many service providers such as software developers who will not work for equity unless an investment has been made by an institutional fund. According to a report by Ernst & Young ”Although VC-backed activity increased, (in 2010) the median time from initial VC financing to an IPO exit remains long.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways.

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