Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

The Basics The starting point — the 101 — is knowing the difference between gross burn and net burn. Gross burn is your cost base and net burn is the difference between your revenue and costs. GAAP Net Income, which at times isn’t a good reflection of cash burn). In short, it’s the amount of cash you’re burning every month (vs.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2009

Recently what looks to be a Netflix power point made its way around the net titled Reference Guide on our Freedom and Responsibility Culture. Tuesday, August 11, 2009 -- Netflix Manifesto. This document which looks to be a cultural manifesto for their salaried employees is well worth the 128 page read. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2023

In the trade, this approach is sometimes called “ dragonfly eye ,” referring to the fact that dragonflies have huge compound eyes, with hundreds of lenses that gather much more data than our human eyes, giving them a survival advantage in a complex world. Enlist the collective intelligence of the crowd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of $200 billion dollars. He repeatedly refers to what he calls " divinely discontented " customers. They always want more, so they pull you along.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. For instance, Guy refers to an entrepreneur’s venture as their “cause.” Obsolescence – By Guy’s own admission, his references to current technologies, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn build in an implicit shelf-life.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2015

We offered a service that has a net promoter score of 87 placing us higher than such great brands as USAA, Costco, Apple and Amazon. We initially launched this test as MeerSpace but people didn’t seem to get the reference. How did we achieve these initial results? If you stored things that might grow you could see their status?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

That said, there are times where you need to cast a wider net. Often recruiters want to handle the final negotiations on package and/or do the reference calls. I’m also reluctant to hand over reference calling. But I doubt they’ll dig in as deep as you will in the reference checks.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 18, 2012

In the beginning there were few variations of domain types you purchase as you had a selection of.com,net, or.org. domain was good enough for the Brooklyn hipster, referring to the company Hipster out of Brooklyn, NY. As the Internet gained popularity with businesses and the general public domains began to expand. you had your.biz and.us

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

They think they’re doing the startup a favor by casting a wide net to VCs. This might be somebody I know well (thus the email will come very highly referred) or somebody I just met for which the company will get the “I just met this person. And then there is the email blaster / form letter introducer.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Assess On-Net Fiber Optic Maps. To determine if local providers have the coverage you need, start by assessing their on-net maps. References. ¹ [link]. ² [link]. Some will have a wider array of infrastructure options and coverage than others. To find a provider that meets your needs, use these tips.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Frothy startup valuations.

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Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Easy to pronounce and remember. Forget made-up words and nonsense phrases.

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Google Custom Customer Sample 117

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. Tap Into Your Employees’ Networks.

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Networking Startup Software Review Conference 83

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. If a customer is faced with two equal choices for companies who can implement Salesforce.com – how do they choose one other than references & price? That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Easy to pronounce and remember. Forget made-up words and nonsense phrases.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

Right now, equity tends to fall to the very high net worth and professional investors. The market will prove otherwise, but we think that as a point of reference, that will be the minimum threshold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Easy to pronounce and remember. Forget made-up words and nonsense phrases.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price. Although such service businesses can be highly profitably from the start, they are difficult to scale, hence they are often referred to by the derisive term “body shop.”

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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. The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. In addition, world renowned speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends in technology.

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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. Our investment thesis we refer to as the connected consumer. We sat down with Derek to learn more about the new $5M fund and what it's all about. Tell us about the new fund? Where are you planning making investments?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

The net result has been a higher caliber of service to our customers and higher margins that have allowed us to invest back in the business to maintain a premium offering." <Note: I am an investor in HG Data via Rincon Venture Partners.> > The Customer Is Not Always King.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. When creating a name, stay with words that can easily be spelled by customers. Easy to pronounce and remember. Forget made-up words and nonsense phrases.

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Company Companies Google Custom 92

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: Subject: Reference for Twilio. Thus, he naturally viewed Twilio's toolsets as rudimentary and easy to copy - easy for him and his world-class team of VoIP engineers, but not so easy for the average developer. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com>

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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. See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. The initial data we are seeing at Ad.ly

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2020

billion net worth. I find that inventors are fond of referring to their new technology as “ disruptive ,” or a major advance. Dyson, for example, invented over 5,000 prototypes before he perfected his bagless home vacuum technology with a constant suction. Then he was able to turn his genius to business and now has a $6.5

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Customer Custom Examples .Net 136

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

The reference may be well-intentioned, but the lawyer’s allegiance may be divided between the investor and you. You can also greatly reduce the risk of employee lawsuits with a few simple preventative steps: Employ consistent and disciplined hiring procedures, including background checks, backdoor references (i.e.,

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

One or both of your parents may have the personality of an entrepreneur, but if their parents were struggling entrepreneurs who put in long¬-hours and netted meager returns, then your parents may have rejected their latent entrepreneurial tendencies. Do not despair.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Writing Startup 153

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We live in interesting times where working at a startup is glamorized to the point that many founders even refer to their team members as “rock stars,” which to my ears is cringe worthy. Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

This is only an educated hypothesis but I’ll bet it’s pretty close to grounded in reality: Everybody saw “The Social Network” and everybody has a belief that suing will net them millions whether they’re in the right or the wrong. Humor is tone deaf in court.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The article also refers to government data showing that those 55 to 64 and older represent one of the fastest growing groups of self-employed workers. In case you think that all of these are employed by big companies, listen to these statistics: According to an article in U.S. of startup businesses as far back as 2005. Angel Investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. They come in the form of personal references. I should have kept it in third person.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. Net neutrality (1:09:00). How investors’ risk differ (0:22:45).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. So Where Do I Personally Net Out? Trust doesn’t come back easily, which is why the role of regulation is so important.

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