Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2021

Attach to the market, not your idea. To turn your passion into profits, emphasize the market, and always think about your business relative to the customers you serve. Know your markets and execute on your market opportunity by placing a priority on your customer’s experience and perception of value. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management. The Basics The starting point — the 101 — is knowing the difference between gross burn and net burn. But here’s also a good rule of thumb for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Until the recession a decade ago, market research indicated that as many as 90 percent of the roughly 20 million American small business owners were motivated more by lifestyle than growth and money. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” According to William R.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

And most of us investors are frustrated by the lack of regular communication – unless of course – the company needs more money. Of course, a public company is not entitled to pare its information to reduce exposure to competitors. Every investor wants regular information from companies taking their money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Of course, now that you have investor attention, the devil is in the details. Investors realize that the resources and risk required to hit both markets concurrently are great, so they will likely look for focus, or a staged approach. Of course, we all prefer billion dollar opportunities, with double-digit growth rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. The Nature of Revenue Matters Of course revenue alone won’t tell you enough. Not necessarily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

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. Of course, it will never happen if you don’t start or don’t believe. Have a big bandwidth. Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. And of course there are special interior and exterior finishes – 13 paint colors in all — and a first edition version customers can buy. The Sportback will come to Europe first in spring 2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages. Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Family Offices (of high-net-worth individuals or families). We raised $280 million. Foundations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Until the recession a few years ago, market research indicated that as many as 90 percent of the roughly 20 million American small business owners were motivated more by lifestyle than growth and money. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” According to William R.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you want to be a YouTube MCN producer the problem is compounded by the fact that of course the talent needs to make money as well. Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2014

We caught up with CEO Michael Aleles to learn more about the company and its quest to serve consumers in what has been a consumer unfriendly market. We also have several, high net work Mexican individuals invested in our company. How are you planning to address other markets? What is Quippi all about? businesses.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

Others worry that investors will latch onto individual line items within financial data and engage in inquisitions regarding telephone bills, marketing costs and other tactical line items in detailed financial statements. Of course, a public company is not entitled to pare its information to reduce exposure to competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2013

Attach to the market, not your idea. To turn your passion into profits, emphasize the market, and always think about your business relative to the customers you serve. Know your markets and execute on your market opportunity by placing a priority on your customer’s experience and perception of value. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

For this morning's interview, we talked with Westlake Village-based PurePhoto (www.purephoto.com), which is looking to help photographers market and sell their photographs. Finally, I decided it was time to remove the safety net, and had an idea of my own to pursue, so I started by own company. What's next for you? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

Until the recession a few years ago, market research indicated that as many as 90 percent of the roughly 20 million American small business owners were motivated more by lifestyle than growth and money. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” According to William R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2012

Attach to the market, not your idea. To turn your passion into profits, emphasize the market, and always think about your business relative to the customers you serve. Know your markets and execute on your market opportunity by placing a priority on your customer’s experience and perception of value. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

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. Of course, it will never happen if you don’t start or don’t believe. Have a big bandwidth. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Being tenacious without the mental flexibility to pivot based on market feedback is a disaster. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. That’s hard core.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. Of course, we took all of these.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

Of course as a non-Korean I can only generalize but when it was my turn I told her my experience of living in Europe and Japan where failure seemed less tolerated than my experience of living in California and working in the tech sector.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Investors are human, after all Come up with a valid reason because they know in communicating with founders if there’s no reason to say “no” you can generate bad will Risk missing out on an inflection point: Investors of course are also concerned about saying “no” too early in the process when they can “hang around the rim” and see what happens?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. This only becomes noticeable in down markets.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 5, 2016

Selling new products, opening new markets outsourcing business functions and every other decision affects the bottom line. The net income is calculated by subtracting expenses from the revenue. The net income is calculated by subtracting expenses from the revenue. The Bottom Line. Execution and Control. Continuing Optimization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2011

Attach to the market, not your idea. To turn your passion into profits, emphasize the market, and always think about your business relative to the customers you serve. Know your markets and execute on your market opportunity by placing a priority on your customer’s experience and perception of value. Marty Zwilling.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2017

As the tech economy continues its historic boom, here’s three views of labor market trends released this week, including the rise and fall of buzzwords in engineering job postings; the Trump Administration’s impact on U.S. And of course we’re not talking about a little data here or there. It’ got to be big. So there’s probably.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

Qualcomm had worked to develop its Vuforia technology for at least five years before a maturing smartphone market and new economic realities led to the sale. Of course, as Xconomy noted last year , there also were precious few examples of mobile games or ads that became a runaway success because of the way they used augmented technology.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

You’d be forgiven, then, for assuming the city is seeing a net loss of tech workers. Workers are seeking destinations that are large, tech-friendly, on the rise, and — of course — have a lower cost of living, even if not a particularly low one. But, you’d be wrong, according to a new report out from LinkedIn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. Sales volumes are still ramping up while marketing expenses are at max. You can be on budget, and still run out of cash. On the other side, your new customers expect a free trial period.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Here are the components and “rules of thumb” that I recommend to every startup: Place a fair market value on all physical assets (asset approach).

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Steve Reich

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Last week, the WSJ ran a great article (add link) on the value of college humanities courses, and used comments from a successful entrepreneur to make their case. The net result? Does your investor pitch tell a story, or is it a disconnected jumble of elevator pitch, market sizing, technology and financials?

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