InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. As noted in What Does VC Traction Really Mean? , What’s The Worst Mistake? > -jeff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2010

Last week at an angel investor forum I was privileged to meet Stephanie Spong, who is a Principal with EPIC Ventures, an increasingly rare early stage VC firm. Stephanie: I am a venture capitalist currently based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, with EPIC Ventures. Stephanie also speaks Spanish and Japanese. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I began our discussion by asking Brad what motivated him to co-author Venture Deals , rather than continuing to share venture capitalists’ secrets via his Ask The VC blog. I then asked Brad what he thought would be the most surprising lesson that emerging entrepreneurs will learn from Venture Deals ? There are several.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub. I always wanted to have Dan on This Week in VC with Dan Primack ( to see video click link ) because he’s blunt, honest, opinionated and well informed. Question: Some people are saying traditional VC is dead.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Idling capacity is a notion that was first systematically studied and measured in the context of industrial processes. With US student debt at over one trillion dollars, startups like Skillshare and Udemy provide top-class vocational training for the price of a Harvard hoodie. There is value in the “idling capacity” of all assets.

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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 studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. Raising Capital – The VC equivalent for musicians is getting signed by a major label.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2018

The FDA didn’t smile upon a big submission of depression studies from Alkermes, while those fighting liver disease got a mixed slate of data as a big medical conference looms. There were plenty of policy and drug-price headlines, Read more » Reprints | Share: After the deals, we’ll move on to data.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

The price of membership varies depending on what resources an applicant is looking for, whether that’s marketing, help connecting with potential brand partners or use of studio space. Black influencers and startup founders alike face systemic barriers to their growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Market Size.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. The venture capital firm that bears his name. Study the origins of the retail sector and you’ll see Jews who emerged from market stalls like Marks & Spencer or Neiman Marcus. Tech Market Analysis VC Industry'

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. You want to be sure that you get customer commitments before doing the work do agree a case study afterwards if the project is successful. Frankly, you’re going to need to drop price a bit anyways.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2019

Patients, doctors, family members, and drug-price watchdogs continued to wait for the expected approval of Zolgensma , a Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) gene therapy for the rare inherited disease spinal muscular atrophy. Originally developed at a children’s hospital in Ohio , Zolgensma will be a litmus test for the nascent field.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.” I talked with a few VCs and batted around the idea of becoming a VC. No prizes for guessing how my VC chats went.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Idling capacity is a notion that was first systematically studied and measured in the context of industrial processes. With US student debt at over one trillion dollars, startups like Skillshare and Udemy provide top-class vocational training for the price of a Harvard hoodie. There is value in the “idling capacity” of all assets.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. First, over time Salesforce.com’s technology got better and better yet the price didn’t shoot up dramatically relative to Siebel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2013

I’m a VC – he doesn’t need more of me at The Lobby. How smart she was – studying to be a doctor. ” Bill Price wrote. I told you that I wanted to go to The Lobby and you told me you’d make it happen. Please don’t email David Hornik. I don’t want to bug him. That was very kind.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2018

The price of drugs is certainly on a lot of minds these days, including the mind of President Trump, as he reportedly will make a. While pembrolizumab notched the headline-grabbing data, others are also working to develop options for various subsets of patients. Who will be able to afford all these options?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

According to one study, there were over 835,000 people working out of coworking spaces last year. The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. You may either want to negotiate your price or find another space that fits your budget. .

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

billion, the price Gilead Sciences is paying for Kite Pharma and its cancer-fighting cell therapy pipeline. The far-out idea of reprogramming a patient’s immune cells to fight cancer, known as CAR-T, entered the mainstream this week, and two numbers highlight the tale. The first is $11.9

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. I wouldn’t be a VC for very long if I did. I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

Idling capacity is a notion that was first systematically studied and measured in the context of industrial processes. With US student debt at over one trillion dollars, startups like Skillshare and Udemy provide top-class vocational training for the price of a Harvard hoodie. There is value in the “idling capacity” of all assets.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

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. Entrepreneurism / Monetization economics, human behaviour, pricing. . Funding / VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with 90% of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. The good news is that the cost for new startups is at an all-time low.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. Hautelook disintermediated the off-price part of the segment. It's the relationship between price and quality. But, we can competitively position the same product, the same fashion, in the same context, at a significantly lower price.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Noah Auerhahn: ExtraBux helps consumers get the lowest prices online, by integrating online discounts into a comparison shopping engine. We wrote up a business plan, and won a USC business plan competition, which allowed us to get funding from the University and raise venture capital we needed to begin development on the plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. The good news is that the cost for new startups is at an all-time low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. The good news is that the cost for new startups is at an all-time low.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2017

The FDA reported that generic drug approvals are set to hit a record ; the agency under Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has moved this summer to increase generic competition and lower the nation’s high drug prices. Meanwhile, drug-price hawks can sharpen their talons on a report this week from The New York Times and ProPublica.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We'd do a Series A, and participate in the Series B, but when companies hit breakout, we would call a late stage VC and have them price the deal, and do all of that. The reason for that, and it's really important, is the bane of this asset class is the generally poor liquidity that venture capital provides.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2017

A new study showed it may take another 40 years to achieve gender diversity in life sciences. It was a wild week in biotech and on Capitol Hill. Tensions continued to mount between drugmakers and payers over the rising costs of rare disease drugs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

Idling capacity is a notion that was first systematically studied and measured in the context of industrial processes. With US student debt at over one trillion dollars, startups like Skillshare and Udemy provide top-class vocational training for the price of a Harvard hoodie. There is value in the “idling capacity” of all assets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

According to my experience and a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

New documents came to light that showed the sugar industry paid for studies downplaying the ties between sugar and heart disease. Meanwhile, there was yet another twist in the ongoing Duchenne muscular dystrophy drama, more biotech buyouts, new startups, and the filing of a long anticipated IPO.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2019

You might be camping, barbecuing, or sleeping on Monday. It’s Labor Day, after all. But in Paris, this cardiologist will be in a conference center, walking an audience through a slide deck packed with Phase 3 data for a new cholesterol-lowering drug, inclisiran. Inclisiran’s owner, the Medicines Co.,

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