InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. What must a startup do to motivate you to write them a check? Smaller businesses gravitate to the cost savings.”.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. Tempus Fugit.

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JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. And often these contracts don’t prohibit you from marketing to competitors so you can often start to build your future pipeline while not immediately selling to the competition.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Competition. Market Size. Of course the hardest competitor for most of us is simply customer inertia. You need a wedge.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. I believe that.

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