Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

There is not a single case I’ve been involved with in any of the startups I’ve backed that has even a small bit of merit. So why exactly have lawsuits (anecdotally) picked up so much in the past 5 years? I started writing about problems when founding a startup years ago but the problem has gotten worse.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 25, 2022

Grocery delivery startup Instacart used to be valued at $39 billion. Another reason could be a steep drop in sales growth rate since the start of the pandemic, when many people suddenly became interested in getting groceries dropped off at their door. Now, it has dropped that valuation to just $24 billion, a drop of 38%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2023

We are all jealous of the few leaders who seem to get it right more often than not, amassing multiple business successes, such as Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson , while the rest of us struggle to keep up with our smaller domains. Of course, you have to stop talking and start really listening if you want to learn anything from questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. This term is currently applied to recent startups who profess a current valuation which exceeds $1 billion. Could your startup be the next one? Sweat equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

More likely they either end up finding an excuse not to meet, delaying a meeting indefinitely or in most cases actually taking a meeting. If I do it to them twice it may start to affect our relationship or at least their willingness to take more meetings from me. Over-introducers also consume a lot of personal time in making intros.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

If you're a startup business owner, how do you get to the next step, and build your first product? That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. Let me start with an example. She told me, “start with the price you want but the move in date he wants.&#. I said, “If I start with your position I have nowhere to go but down.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. If you are curious as to why a serial entrepreneur who does not generally appreciate business books gives Enchantment a thumbs-up, read on….

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Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. 0:28:00) & (0:31:27).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

First things first – your startup needs a name! 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. Forget made-up words and nonsense phrases. Easy to pronounce and remember.

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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. I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. We ARE family.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs. Whenever we encountered a prospect who attempted to nickel-and-dime us with an unreasonable request, we referred to them as “wanting a rib.”. Share and Enjoy.

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

Especially in the early days of your startup, when you’re often only months from running out of money, hiring the wrong person can be disastrous. And if, like us, you spend the first six months of your startup under a rock, your social capital may begin to dry up. 4 Ways Startups Can Structure Job Interviews to Avoid Bias.

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Networking Startup Software Review Conference 82

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So pervasive has this thinking become that on several occasions startup companies with profitable & fast growing services businesses have come to me wanting to show me the product businesses they created internally to see whether they would be financeable or whether they might be able to create “spin outs&# that could be financed.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

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. This has been a great start we wanted to push harder. We started by beta testing ephemeral photos. We initially launched this test as MeerSpace but people didn’t seem to get the reference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2020

In fact, contrary to popular opinion, my experience as a business advisor tells me that building a business may actually be the hard part, compared to coming up with an innovative new idea, or even inventing the solution to a hard problem. billion net worth. As a result, their inventions languish and never make them a dollar.

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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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Slides Custom Customer Satisfaction 137

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. You've been an angel investor here for awhile, why did you decide to open up a fund this time to external LPs? Tell us about the new fund?

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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. And I know that ICOs (initial coin offerings) are all the rage amongst startup and some are raising for entirely good and valuable reasons.

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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. When evaluating providers, ask about flexibility up front to ensure you’re committing to the right partner. References. ¹ [link]. ² [link].

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Networking Demand Southern California .Net 45

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. It’s OK, You Can Create Kick-Ass Web AppsAre you tired of getting verbally beat up about developing web and HTML5 apps? This session starts from scratch and primes a new ASP.NET MVC 4/.

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Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

First things first – your startup needs a name! 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. Forget made-up words and nonsense phrases. Easy to pronounce and remember.

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Google Custom Customer Sample 117

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. of startup businesses as far back as 2005. So what are some ideal roles for a Boomer relative to your startup?

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Mentor Statistics High Tech Demand 75

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

First things first – your startup needs a name! 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. Forget made-up words and nonsense phrases. Easy to pronounce and remember.

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Company Companies Google Custom 108

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

First things first – your startup needs a name! 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. Forget made-up words and nonsense phrases. Easy to pronounce and remember.

Company 92

Company Companies Google Custom 92

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Thus, while we maintain a healthy degree of optimism, we begin each funding discussion knowing that most nascent startups are not worthy of an investment, until we prove them otherwise. Unicornless.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Johnnie Cochran was an effective, albeit smarmy, defense lawyer who would say or do anything to defend his clients (anyone up for a glass of OJ?). A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Some first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that they are not entrepreneurs because they have never invented anything nor have they come up with a novel idea upon which a company could be built. Dreaming is great, but if you never wake up and act upon your dreams you might as well stay in bed. Entrepreneur Does Not Equal Inventor.

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