Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Shervin Pishevar, another person who I respect wrote the following on Twitter, “ Saying you don’t like @AngelList is like saying you don’t like Email. As Shervin said, it’s just email. I have now put a filter on my email so it is auto-filed in Gmail. It’s a communication tool. My personal use.

Venture Capital 267

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Berkonomics

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s a way to prevent such behavior and create a tool for organization – and transparency at the same time. Financial perspective: financial statement showing key indicators such as revenue, expense, net income or other measures important to success. Use the four most important measures of success as the basis.

Satisfaction 120

Satisfaction Statistics Course .Net 120

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate.

Email 113

Email Yahoo Startup Google 113

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Email readers, continue here…] Accounting and HR operations are combined as quickly as possible, as are customer service call centers, retaining specific product skills on the front line from the acquired company. Facilities may become redundant or oversized after these efforts, allowing for consolidation of facilities as well.

Acquisition 120

Acquisition .Net Sales Email 120

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When you seek professional investors, whether organized angels or venture capitalists, one of the early questions you are asked is “How have you financed the business so far?” Currently that standard requires a minimum of $200,000 in annual income or over one million in net assets, including the value of the investor’s principal residence.

Companies 156

Companies Company Invest Entrepreneur 156

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We've had close to 2 million tasks people have put into there in the last four months, and all this without any PR or advertising, completely organic. One of the most popular features of the application is the delegation feature, which with one tap allows them to email a grocery list to their husband to pick up.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

Entrepreneur 143

Entrepreneur Social Network Activity Networking 143

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why before every speech I call the organizer and drill them about who will be in the audience. I organize the components of the topic, I write the section headings, I think about them each as individual titles, I think about whether the order flows and whether the overall narrative holds. In addition to driving Ms.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Get organized. Email readers, continue here.] The net result of this exercise. Finding your strategic partner, investor or business buyer is not something you do haphazardly. There are many steps to take, each closer to assuring a success. Start with the “matrix method.”. Think of those who might need what you have to offer.

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Paramount Outsource Research 156

Berkonomics

MARCH 7, 2019

When you seek professional investors, whether organized angels or venture capitalists, one of the early questions you are asked is “How have you financed the business so far?” When you started the business, you took investments from friends and family in small amounts just to get you started. Of course, that worked at the time.

Invest 153

Invest Entrepreneur Course .Net 153

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

While his insights have come from large organizations, I give many of the same recommendations to every startup: Channel engagement performance. Nurturing stage email performance. That makes it easier to collect results indicators, including number of emails sent, open rate, click rate, and email bounce rates.

Metrics 101

Metrics Marketing Demand Paramount 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. USA Angel Investment Network.

Startup 135

Startup Keiretsu Platform Invest 135

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This absurd statement caused me to realize that I had done a poor job of instilling a sense of frugality into our organization. For instance, whenever someone at your venture saves your company money, send a company-wide email acknowledging their accomplishment. These words were actually uttered by an otherwise intelligent human being.

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. Keiretsu Forum.

Angel 102

Angel Keiretsu Organization Template 102

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. New England Investment Network.

Angel 115

Angel Startup Funding Keiretsu 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. New England Investment Network.

Angel 108

Angel Keiretsu Organization Invest 108

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. And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know).

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But throughout the transition I had my safety net. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do. What did you guys consciously do to manage this transition and how much of it was organic? “To From day one we focused on customers.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Prepare for your annual meetings well. Summarizing income statements with a line for revenues, cost of revenue, general and administrative expenses, sales and other direct costs – all leading to net income, would satisfy the legal requirement for statement of income and expense.

Class 120

Class Course Report Competition 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

Activity 97

Activity Networking Entrepreneur Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

Networking 100

Networking Entrepreneur Social Network Activity 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

Networking 97

Networking Startup Activity Entrepreneur 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. USA Angel Investment Network.

Angel 96

Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 96

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

However, when one does find its way into my email inbox, I admittedly am more energized to help the person or organization in the future. Even favors that do not net positive results should be acknowledged and verbally appreciated. I do not engage in such favors with the desire or even the expectation of receiving a “Thank You.”

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Help Networking Startup 210

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

Networking 90

Networking Entrepreneur Social Network Activity 90

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over 73% of large businesses in North America use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary email system. Microsoft donated over $504 million worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use.

Writing 88

Writing Training Email .Net 88

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools. How CapLinked Changes The Game.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs. That's the first time organized, institutional, managed capital is coming into a company, right after friends and family. Derek Norton: There were two specific things. It all starts there. and beyond.

Invest 145

Invest Funding Capital Startup 145

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Take little to no net profit. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit.

Equity 96

Equity Startup Summary Tips 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Take little to no net profit. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. If you do, there probably won't ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit.

Tips 96

Tips Startup Summary Entrepreneur 96

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

As noted in Net Profit Score , salespeople have used references as a means of establishing credibility with strangers for hundreds of years. The longer you wait to ask for a reference, the more difficult it will be for your Referencer to recall how you specifically added value to her organization.

Startup 113

Startup .Net Organization Networking 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

While his insights have come from large organizations, I give many of the same recommendations to every startup: Channel engagement performance. Nurturing stage email performance. That makes it easier to collect results indicators, including number of emails sent, open rate, click rate, and email bounce rates.

Metrics 57

Metrics Demand Marketing Paramount 57

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

The area which probably is really attuned to your readers, is we also serve many mid-market, growth oriented companies that are looking to grow and acquire customers, with paid and earned digital channels, paid search, paid media, social, email, and organic SEO, as well as digital PR and content. Now, it's long, and complex.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. USA Angel Investment Network.

Angel 67

Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 67

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Using amSTATZ athletes can track workouts and search for trainers and local events and event organizers can use the network for their events publicity and partner with trainers to develop training programs for their registrants. For the client: Before: 60 minutes of training with a trainer = $60. How does it work practically?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

Networking 63

Networking Social Network Activity Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. You can then begin your application to one or more of these organizations right on the same screen. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. Keiretsu Forum.

Angel 48

Angel Keiretsu Startup Template 48