Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. They know her personally and know she cares about her constituencies even if she has to make tough trade-offs from time-to-time. But VC is like congress.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Executives are also at risk for insider trading and employment practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. Stocks that have a lot of people trading are said to have a lot of liquidity , which basically means it’s really easy to get into (buy) or get out of (sell) the stock.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 7, 2010

Despite the pathetic nature of Barney deals, the big purple dinosaur offered sound business advice to entrepreneurs in a TV episode entitled, “Sharing means caring.” As discussed in Beware The Consultant , startups cannot afford to trade their money for promises. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. We’re a great big family.”.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Trade To A Competing Team – These individuals represent the worst type of startup employee. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Tags: Entrepreneur Team Building The Fringe. Hands-on management of these teammates is a worthwhile investment, as they have the ability to eventually enhance their productivity to a high-performing level.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? Bootstrapping requires that the entrepreneur go out and talk to their users or clients. Users who will not trade personal info will remain unwilling. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Write it down….

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe that.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. designed, PDF sales sheet they can print out and bring to art fairs and trade shows and hand out. AS I was working my engineering job, I got obsessed with programming and building a business for the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. And you risk “trading while insolvent” which has legal implications. Growth vs. Profitability.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

who founded AdECN in Carpinteria, which was bought by Microsoft, is starting his second venture, Trade Desk, which is in stealth mode at the event, there's Netplenish.com, headed by Dave Compton, who founded Aqua Scientific, has a bitoech firm in Ventura, and is launching at the event. The purpose was to deliver high value jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

It's a Twitter-like experience, and harnesses the couch effect--as if you're sitting around the couch with your friends, having a few beers, and calling plays and trading smack talk. In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

I became general counsel, an investor, and an entrepreneur, and played a bunch of different roles at companies--so I know security laws intimately. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. They are companies like Facebook, which has shares trading daily, or at least a weekly basis.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Our 2011 exits of Accordent Technologies and Del Mar Datatrac (DMD) put us in the top decile of performance for 2007 vintage year, private equity funds. The Accordent team spent less money on PR, fancy trade show booths and expensive management team members. The second reason is that we are a hybrid fund with a unique strategy.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

So it’s becoming easier to see how a President Trump or President Clinton might approach questions of keen interest to entrepreneurs and investors, like the merits of the carried-interest loophole in the federal tax code, or how to handle visas for high-skilled workers. Democrats: Clinton said back in 2007 that the U.S. Immigration.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. So why do inexperienced (as entrepreneurs), ultra-skilled CTOs fall into the trap of engaging a business partner too early? Camaraderie?

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

before which is second-time entrepreneurs. of Internet entrepreneurs following up on the successes of the first generation (Overture, etc.). www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now. Fast Company, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007-2195. What is happening in L.A. Register Now!

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. No matter how entrepreneurial your lawyer is, he ultimately is in the business of trading his time for your money. As noted in Frugal is as Frugal Does , entrepreneurs on The Fringe only spend their cash on items that add value to their adVentures. Money Is Time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company).

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

We didn’t hire resumes and experience, we hired smart, good people who wanted to be entrepreneurs. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. And, we were very quickly chipping away at their customer base, too. Every person on my team was A-class.

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