InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Of the 80 companies that have completed the program since its 2007 inception, 49 have received funding, 8 have been acquired and 8 have ceased operations. Writing a book is very different from writing a blog. One, I wanted to know what it was like to write a book. There were a couple motivations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

As I reflect upon the journey’s I’ve taken as a VC since 2007 I realize that the ones I was best at – and that I enjoyed the most – are ones that began by falling in love. I write this because I know how difficult it can be to find a potential investor and to decide with whom you’d like to try to work.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

I started out this year writing about how much I hate December. Never was that more clear than in this short, but tear-inducing post from 2007 by Aaron Swartz , who you probably know took his life last week at the full-life-in-front-of-him-but-didn’t-feel-that-way age of 26. How to say it? Mutter those words. I always have.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

What I really liked was serving people, I really liked helping people, and in my little seven-year-old mind, that meant being a waitress. In 2007, Sarah joined Current TV. in 2007 (and) 2008 (and I realized) there is all this online video being consumed and it''s not being consumed on Current. A Foundation Of Honorable Service.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2012

A little bit about the author Chris Camillo…When the stock market was at it’s worst and our economy was failing us from 2007-2010 his private self-managed portfolio outperformed the big fancy dogs of Wall Street. Most auth ors write from a place of passion and a desire to share. He teaches how to take the risk out of being risky.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. A little Groucho Marx always helps. I don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The deal was done in late 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We spent time going out there and really talking to customers, doing primary research, and have our customers actually help us build our products.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

I was a sales person at HotJobs, but after we went public I helped open up an office in Los Angeles, and lived in Los Angeles for eight years. The, I moved back to LA and helped build out our strategic account management and our strategic sales team for HotJobs. Donnelly in 2007. I didn't really set out to write a book.

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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. Maybe this meme will help.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

The industry did that in 2007. But if you take $10 on $30, $40 or even $50 G-d help you if you need to raise your next round and haven’t demonstrated amazing traction or you raise after the next correction. But sometimes “mo” is “ faux ” and then … G-d help you. 10 is the new 3. ” Well.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. Content delivery networks are there to help improve the performance, and serve up that content more intelligently to devices, to thd network, and to users, as they consume the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Our motivation has always been to help people learn. This clearly helped you establish credibility in the early days of lynda.com. Our motivation has always been to help people learn. I would probably enjoy teaching, running a conference, making documentaries, curating a series of lectures, writing a book or a regular blog.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Our motivation has always been to help people learn. This clearly helped you establish credibility in the early days of lynda.com. Our motivation has always been to help people learn. I would probably enjoy teaching, running a conference, making documentaries, curating a series of lectures, writing a book or a regular blog.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

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). What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model. 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.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

As discussed in Personal Pitch , entrepreneurs must cultivate the help of Donors during the early days of their adVenture. In most instances, the Donor’s compensation comes from the satisfaction of helping a fellow entrepreneur who is on the front end of her career. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Thanks for making me look good.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Most people don't know it, but JAMDAT, and eventually EA Mobile, helped launch the iPod game channel, so we saw what was coming. By 2007, when we started GOGII, we really wanted to break out of the mobile ecosystem, and we were one of the first five companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins iFund.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Your BBB has formed a strategic alliance to help save you money in your everyday costs starting immediately. I have been asked by your Better Business Bureau to help accredited businesses like you keep more of the money you earn. Please let me know if there is anything else we can help you with. 2007 Closed Complaints – 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. But the people whom I consider best in this industry are quite helpful indeed. Great VCs create the fabric of their success by backing the best entrepreneurs they have access to and then helping them to lean on the scales.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). I’ll help you raise the fund. I Practice What I Preach.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. We’ll see. Enter Withings. Pretty cool stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. And you can have ulterior motives like helping people or being involved with “cool stuff.&# If you’re investing other people’s money you’re a professional money manager. That’s awesome. It is such a disconnect.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. If you've written a book, it can help reinforce that knowledge.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Write it down…. To what extent does all the “social” noise and excitement help or hurt your ability to tell SocialStay’s story to potential investors and partners? Copyright © 2007-11 by J. The other thing would be to be CLEAR on legal structures, partnerships, etc… to the degree you can. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Start by writing a draft of your reference. This detailed information will help your Referencer identify specific anecdotes and accomplishments relevant to the prospective position you are seeking. By doing so, you are being polite and you are increasing the probability the Referencer will be willing to help you again in the future.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Our platform helps them do that. Our partners put a lot of trust in us.

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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? Write down five factors that you feel contributed the most to your dream team’s success. Common Vision. The Beatles shared a single vision of their future.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Just like real friends, Bros help each other; it is not a one-way street. When this occurs, it is a sign that you are considered a kindred spirit who can help your Bro overcome their internal challenges. Certainly there are many qualities which will help you enhance your Bro’ing efforts. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. We want to help them, and will. Thank you @eminutes. . Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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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. I think what makes companies successful is not killer ideas (don’t get me wrong – they help), but killer execution at whatever model it is they have chosen to do. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. it is often helpful to look into your past. As noted in Your Personal Pitch , people enjoy helping appreciative people who are in need. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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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. I think what makes companies successful is not killer ideas (don’t get me wrong – they help), but killer execution at whatever model it is they have chosen to do. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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