Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I believe the rise in angel investing is here to stay and the professionalization of this class (aka “super angels&# or “micro VC&# ) is a good thing for the VC industry and for entrepreneurs. I will publish what I believe the five are in a series of articles.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Rather than obsessing about an indirect gauge of customer satisfaction, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score. A quick “No” is far more valuable to a busy entrepreneur than a nebulous NPS response of “five.”. As noted in Personal Pitch , entrepreneurs must make it easy for others to help them succeed.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 24, 2011

Over 600 people came to this event to listen share and network, including entrepreneurs, VC’s and investors. The company brought on retailers Circuit City, Sears and Kmart in 2006 followed by mega retailer Walmart in 2007. All this success in less than five years.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Rather than obsessing about an indirect gauge of customer satisfaction, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score. A quick “No” is far more valuable to a busy entrepreneur than a nebulous NPS response of “five.”. As noted in Personal Pitch , entrepreneurs must make it easy for others to help them succeed.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

October” because of his consistent ability to hit home runs during clutch situations in playoff and World Series games, which contributed to his teams winning five Championships. As such, he played for five different teams during his career. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Tags: Entrepreneur Team Building The Fringe.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

Alger’s works as juvenile rags to riches novels misses the author’s primary point and the reason why the books had such a tremendous impact on several generations of American entrepreneurs. Five Dollars And Two Hours. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Tags: Entrepreneur Fundraising The Fringe. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. Paige Craig: In 2007, I stepped back from a company called the Lincoln Group. The two key tenets of that are real time recognition, and real time rewards.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

As discussed in Nature Or Nurture , I believe that entrepreneurs are born rather than created by their environment. However, as I learned as child, entrepreneurs were attracted to the goldfields. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. However, one’s environment clearly has an impact on a person’s ultimate career path. Meredith Publishing.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

As discussed in Nature Or Nurture , I believe that entrepreneurs are born rather than created by their environment. However, as I learned as child, entrepreneurs were attracted to the goldfields. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. However, one’s environment clearly has an impact on a person’s ultimate career path. Meredith Publishing.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? In the early days of your companies, what techniques do you use to separate entrepreneurs from Wantrepreneurs (those who think they want to be an entrepreneur but do not have the innate skills, drive, risk profile, etc.)?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? In the early days of your companies, what techniques do you use to separate entrepreneurs from Wantrepreneurs (those who think they want to be an entrepreneur but do not have the innate skills, drive, risk profile, etc.)?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Our day to day focus is to work very closely with our companies to help them grow to $15M to $25M in revenues in about three to five years, at which time we'll likely seek an exit to a strategic acquirer. This mentality allows them to grow without significant additional capital into our targeted revenue range.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

That nightmare happened to Jim Carol , a serial entrepreneur who was co-founder and CEO of San Diego's PacketVideo , when his son was diagnosed with cancer. Jim Carol: I'm a serial entrepreneur. I retired from there in 2003, but I've always been an entrepreneur and run lots of businesses, and have always been in technology.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In When assembling a team, I encourage entrepreneurs to seek out the MVPs, and look to build diversity into the teams they assemble.”. Or if you prefer the phone, we can be reached at 888-675-2007.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. For the more questionable ones, ones with less sustainable differentiation, this time it''s a little tougher than a couple of years ago, and certainly much more so than 2006 and 2007. Now we have it.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

9) In Competing From The Fringe , I caution entrepreneurs to not alert their competitors when they are making mistakes. What are the primary differences between being a Founder, versus an early Executive, and which role would you recommend to an emerging entrepreneur? Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

9) In Competing From The Fringe , I caution entrepreneurs to not alert their competitors when they are making mistakes. What are the primary differences between being a Founder, versus an early Executive, and which role would you recommend to an emerging entrepreneur? Copyright © 2007-11 by J. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Some of the more successful companies we are making bulletin boards for are companies who have been around for five, six, or maybe even ten years. I became general counsel, an investor, and an entrepreneur, and played a bunch of different roles at companies--so I know security laws intimately. Wilson Sonsini, in fact, represents us.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We launched Docstore about four or five months ago with a number of premium partners, including LegalZoom, CareerPress, LegalAcreements.com, and others, and now we are opening up the marketplace so that virtually anyone can sell high quality, professional content. Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. What we are looking for, first and foremost, is the right entrepreneur. We often hear from entrepreneurs who say--I'll hire a great team, as soon as I get funded.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Those organizations have larger calling needs--maybe calling five hundred, or a thousand people--so they end up buying our premium service. We have a conversion rate of between five and ten percent of users on a given month, who convert to premium usage. John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. 8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. So we have around 260 people in five offices, and a $35 million run rate.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2012

Why did A Flock of Seagulls crash soon after their initial hit while the Beatles’ career has spanned nearly 40-years, including a number one CD (“Love”) as recently as 2007? Serially successful entrepreneurs appreciate the importance of augmenting their chances of winning by pulling together a complimentary Core Team.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Josh Resnick is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of nProgress , the company behind ntro. We grew that to about five hundred people here at our studio in LA, as well as in Australia, and then we partnered with Bioware, the maker of role playing games in Canada, and then sold to Electronic Arts in 2007.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Given that the average lifespan from startup to exit is five to seven years, the first half of a startup’s life is lived without explicit patent protection. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Tags: Corporate Communications Entrepreneur Partnerships Strategic Planning The Fringe. Three years is a lifetime at a startup.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Part of that is the fact that we can provide service sin every country in the world.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. Tags: sports fans jose startup entrepreneur interview game prediction fantasy daveiga klicksports. We made one announcement that year, in the first quarter, and had a huge adoption. Last year, we decided to not do it in-venue, and did it all online, which did great.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 31, 2009

April 2007 I had a miracle surgery and they implanted a digital hearing device into my brain (i know right!) Scott has been a executive life coach and consultant for than 20 years, working with high performance Olympic athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, actors, political consultants to help align their next level of goals and performance.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

By Frank Addante The purpose of this blog is to share experiences, advice and philosophies with other entrepreneurs, my team, the companies I advise and the curious. My postings will start with a quick synopsis on each of my first five startups. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? Welcome to FounderBlog!

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

It seems as though all five of the companies that I have been involved in, to date, somehow have roots reaching back to my first company. Many entrepreneurs start multiple companies and many people who go to work at a startup (becoming entrepreneurs themselves) go on to work for multiple startups in their careers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

That has changed dramatically in the past five years. If the mood of LPs that we surveyed is a reflection on how VCs get financed in the coming three years then a natural conclusion would be that entrepreneurs should continue to find the venture markets robust and capital available for great ideas and businesses with early traction.

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