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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. 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.

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APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. They worry too much about missing out on a deal. I don’t.

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JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. For example: If you were to invest $41 million into a company (and one could assume that you owned between 33-50%) then the company is worth $82-123 million at funding. I acknowledged this in the article. That’s stupid.

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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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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). For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. Another example. It will be controversial – I know.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

There is no set formula – you’ll find as many examples of companies that are family run as not.”. I would probably enjoy teaching, running a conference, making documentaries, curating a series of lectures, writing a book or a regular blog. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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JUNE 8, 2011

For example, if a customer has a question on a purchase, we answer that. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. We then give them the platform, and we also provide the accounting and customer support on the back end. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

There is no set formula – you’ll find as many examples of companies that are family run as not.”. I would probably enjoy teaching, running a conference, making documentaries, curating a series of lectures, writing a book or a regular blog. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure, and make it work to your advantage. Thanks to our Sponsors! We also wanted to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. I believe that. Bubbles are not all bad.

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MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. Take for example Accel. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 They see how hard she does her job. They know her personally and know she cares about her constituencies even if she has to make tough trade-offs from time-to-time. Ergo I suck.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you want it to be private, for example if you're a consultant or teacher, you can share it with a pre-identified audience for that knowledge by publishing it privately and inviting others to log into Knowledge Genie to share that knowledge. The second example, is you can publish it in public. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure, and make it work to your advantage. Thanks to our Sponsors! We also wanted to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. As described more fully in Thrill The Messenger. Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

2) Imagine you are writing a Wall Street Journal article in five years describing how ZipRecruter became the dominant online job site. Rent.com was a great example of that. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Build an elite team. Your headcount will be lower so stretch your budget to get people who can do more for you.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

2) Imagine you are writing a Wall Street Journal article in five years describing how ZipRecruter became the dominant online job site. Rent.com was a great example of that. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Build an elite team. Your headcount will be lower so stretch your budget to get people who can do more for you.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We'll even write a half a million check. To answer your earlier question, if we're getting involved in earlier stages, is GRP wants to do A round investments. That as unhealthy. An A round investment in this market is a million to $4 million.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

An example of design patent is shown at left. Unlike an unregistered copyright, which you gain automatically by expressing an idea in written form, you cannot gain intellectual property protection by simply being the first person to describe an idea in writing. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Know Thou Prior Art. Meredith Publishing.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. Further, your core group of really good engineers will set the tone and example for everyone else and will likely always represent 80% of the value delivered by your development team. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form: user_id, event_name, value, datetime. Make sense?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. The rash of spam lawsuits from a few years ago is a good example of how two-bit, loser lawyers who cannot make an honest buck go after companies who are trying to do the right thing.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. Let me give you a non tech & thus non politically charged example. Back to my non-VC example. Mostly, no.

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MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. For example, one time Mike went to David Liu, CEO of The Knot, and said ‘I know your wedding pages are very valuable. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Thank you, John. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

I had an offer to sell my company to Salesforce.com in 2007. But let me give you an example. I might just change your life (for example if you personally own 33% of the company). I’m not just writing that “I love entrepreneurs&# to curry favor with startup CEO’s. But let me give you an example.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I purposely did not assume a new title for two reasons: a) I wanted to set an example for everyone that titles are only what you make of them, and b) I could not fit myself into any one particular box – I describe my role best as “free safety.&# . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

One need look no further for an prototypical example of a Bro than the Wizard in Frank Baum’s, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. However, due to demand from his readership, Baum was forced to write him back into the adventure series. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Some of the more important characteristics include: Honesty.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

One obvious example is the OSI model in which we have seven layers ranging from the physical layer at the bottom of the stack (e.g. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. Let’s take some examples.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example). To make it easier for you to understand – check out this video (NSFW – language – but good graphics & example of future.

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