Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Join a local investment group.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Morgan healthcare investment conference in San Francisco, Saunders reiterated that the high single-digit price hikes would only bring Allergan (NYSE: AGN ) a two or three percent net increase in revenues after middlemen like Express Scripts (NYSE: ESRX ) and CVS Health (NYSE: CVS ), called pharmacy.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

’ It’s pretty terrible to have to go to conferences… with people who are talking about… stuff that not only do I know nothing about, but I could give two $hits about.” Mark’s initial venture had a large marketing budget, which allowed him to attend conferences all over the world. Start Lean.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Better that you find that out before showing off your wares at the next trendy conference only to smoke your friends & families’ money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Join a local investment group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

I’m sure that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who have acknowledged a mentoring relationship after meeting via networking, never compared titles or net worth. Simply attending lots of conferences and events, and handing out hundreds of business cards, won’t facilitate that learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

Elon Musk via Flickr by TED Conference To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

Below we’ll outline how to squeeze those last drops of talent out of your own social circles, how to incentivize current employees to lure in potential candidates in their networks, and how to entice “superconnectors” to recruit through their own far-reaching nets. Tap Into Your Network.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Everyone knows what it means to have a “dot-com”, and most people have heard of a “dot-net” and a “dot-org.” At O ctober’s ICANN 51 conference in Los Angeles , the ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse was tasked with explaining the new Internet landscape to attendees.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? Here’s my take away. This will be seen as a watershed moment in the wake-up call and rationalization of our industry. What is your cash balance?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. Yet you can run a conference and mint money. If it’s well run, people readily pay for conferences and sponsors readily pay to become platinum, gold or silver sponsors. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Join a local investment group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Partnerships: Relationships with larger firms not only confer legitimacy to your business; they can be an important source of intellectual property, distribution channels, and marketing clout. Net Income: The five factors listed above all contribute to something that is directly measurable: net income.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Join a local investment group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Join a local investment group.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs. She did the math and realized that she could bring in more money through Airbnb than she could by having a roommate.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Alan Horsager: We started selling the test in October last year, when we launched at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, at their annual conference. We then got some additional funding, of essentially high net worth individuals, not insittutional funds. When did you roll out your tests?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Being an entrepreneur is about, “The journey through the ‘NO’ to get to the YES’ ” said by Ryan Caldbeck, CEO of CircleUp , on a panel at the Connections Conference in Indianapolis. And when Matt asked his friends around the country for support people took action.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

The net result is that often I find founders who don’t really know where they stand, what they would need to do in order to get an investment, who has to decide, what is the process to get that decision and what are the next steps in the process. It is perfectly acceptable (and should be required!) to politely ask about the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Join a local investment group.

Networking 97

Networking Startup Activity Entrepreneur 97

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. Every year, Dallas Day of.net has been sold out and has proven to be a great networking event boasting to be the largest premium conference in Microsoft technologies in Texas.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. Friedman again in this weekend’s (Apr 3, 2010) NYTimes: “Between 1980 and 2005, virtually all net new jobs created in the U.S.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

It is that time of year again, when the digital and tech world looked up from their busy workload just long enough to make sure that they are “represented” with a kickass submission for a panel or two at the most prestigious conference all year, SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive Festival). Your Network=Your Net Worth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? And, of course, I check incessantly when I travel, am waiting for a meeting or am sitting in a conference.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Technology wise, we've got our own engineering expertise, and we've built our own video softphone with HD video--which we have in alpha--for HD videoconferencing on a standard CPU, as opposed to the extremely expensive, $20,000 systems that exist now in corporate conference rooms. Can you talk about your team, and where it came from?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

I’m not saying that you need a 30-tab Excel spreadsheet modeling out 5 year’s of detailed profit & loss accounts with gross and net margins that would be realistic for year 5. Don’t build features that will wow tech journalists, raise eyebrows on stage at a conference or make your competitors envious.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Introducing Bitcoinference | A Decentralized Conference , hosted by illustrious startup accelerator, 500 Startups. Adam states that Bitcoin is now a large portion of his personal net wealth and has to date, backed 11 companies through Boost. Overall, they show bullish investment, but remain strategically cautious.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies. NON: I judge a lot of pitch competitions and speak at a lot of conferences. Entrepreneurs are everywhere and capital isn’t.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

From local Los Angeles tech events to worldwide conferences and expos. At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. ”).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. Video chat is also integrated into our service, and you can invite anyone across any network into a video chatroom, or multiple users into a room for a conference. They all now come with cameras.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. But then I went to the Parnassus Group’s Twitter 140 conference run by Steve Broback and Brett Schulte. I believe Twitter will support this.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

You might net $1 million and that would change your life. Corp Dev is rapping my knuckles because I had planned to speak at the Under the Radar Conference. If you don’t you may have to lay off staff in eight weeks. How can you process that? Even more difficult. You have an offer to sell your company. Should you? This sucks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I have a high fear of failure that acts as my safety net. I spoke at the NextGen conference last week to a large audience. I decided the topic – “All the things I effed up at my first company.&# It was a conference for mostly college undergraduate students or recent graduates. And that did the trick.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The net effect for [my company] for example is we are now doing reasonably well. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. Founders however are asked to take low salaries and never really get back the time they worked for free.

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