InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

Other than shortening the investor’s quarterly commute to your Board meetings, the net benefits of relocating for many startups are illusory, as I describe HERE. I guess no one told him about the medical startups that were purchased by Medtronic, Linvatec, Storz, Mentor, etc., STAGE: Few Harvests, Little Planting.

Venture Capital 233

Venture Capital Capital Funding Technical Review 233

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. There are a couple of ways to think about this growth.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I am on record speaking effusively about AngelList. I worry about that.&#. I know Jason well.

Venture Capital 267

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

In October 2011, Google purchased Motorola, which has business units dispersed through the first four layers of the value chain: component design, component production, device design, and device production. ISP executives have publicly spoken about violating net neutrality. But the ISPs that own and operate the routers might.

Google 92

Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. The collective 28-minutes required to view the videos will net you far more than another episode of Modern Family. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. Grandmaster Flash.

Startup 255

Startup High Tech SaaS .Net 255

InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

Although sports purists would no doubt quibble about the impact expansion has had on professional sports, most fans agree that the overall talent level has remained relatively constant, despite the significant increase in the number of professional athletes. That said, is a two or three or year program that goes away…a net negative?

Startup 270

Startup Incubator Doc Mentor 270

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Many of the large endowments that invest in the venture industry have seen their net worth plummet. About half of the VC dollars and deals come from these two corridors, so it helps to be there. The market is coming back, but it is still well under water. So what can you do to optimize your chances of getting a chunk of the money?

Venture Capital 90

Venture Capital Capital Startup Summary 90

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

He says he cares most about “focusing on customers for life”. They fought back and told me that all they cared about was building a strong community of start up entrepreneurs and providing them as much value as possible to build awesome companies. Think about it. I would repeat to them ‘conversions, conversions, conversions’.

Metrics 87

Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Groesche got me intrigued with Miselu’s grand vision so I couldn’t help but ask him for a quick interview on the product: Tell us about presenting the product early at SXSW? Although, the overall message of the film is quite bleak as they point to the mediocrity that more access to creation and freedom of distribution creates. .

Press 100

Press Ideas Product Activity 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Even investors and experienced founders are caught in the same net as recently educated graduates looking to build companies. With this, Silicon Valley has decided to speak out about the stifling affect of immigration law and the impacts that have caused crippling of the American tech industry. Take the U.S. and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

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. Our team is very well-rounded, so we don’t worry too much about the competition. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44