Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many deals to look at, too many seed funds or angels asking you to look at deals and weekly “demo days” with manicured and monocultural presentations crafted by experienced story tellers to help even the mundane idea sound like it will. For investors life is no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. I think the common denominator and the one word is ‘hustle’ .

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

Note: I am indirectly a micro-investor in Big Frame through Rincon Venture Partners sponsorship of Launchpad LA. 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. these guys, even in 2007, had tens of millions of views.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. There are too many deals. For venture capitalists this isn’t troubling.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. If someone is searching ‘best coupon website deals’, they really do not necessarily (want) one answer to their question, (rather) they want to get a ranked list (based on) hundreds of peoples’ opinions.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd try something different, and put together a virtual panel of venture capitalists to give us a few tips on pitching your company. They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

At the same time, we made it clear that we were flattered by their interest and that we were happy to continue our discussions and further explore if a reasonable deal could be crafted. Senior management was more concerned with ensuring a cultural fit with our acquirer, rather than squeezing the last dollar out of the deal. Do Nothing.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Founders of a CES should pursue investors that are best described as not sharing the traits of traditional venture capitalists, as described below. When the CEO excitedly called his venture capitalists, he was shocked when they literally laughed in his ear. Venture Capitalists are held in low regard by many entrepreneurs for a reason.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Founders of a CES should pursue investors that are best described as not sharing the traits of traditional venture capitalists, as described below. When the CEO excitedly called his venture capitalists, he was shocked when they literally laughed in his ear. Venture Capitalists are held in low regard by many entrepreneurs for a reason.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers. No matter how much they love and support you, they’ll only deal with you mooching off them for a short period of time. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ). But consumers don’t always want to buy that way.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. 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.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

However, his actions indicate that the cultural clash between the two companies was the real reason a deal was never consummated. They knew what they wanted but had no idea how to achieve their goals. If the visitors were Bay Area venture capitalists, Dockers and a collared shirt were in order. Copyright © 2007-10 by J.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness. Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In it, I cover some more general philosophical ideas about how to approach what to measure and what not to measure. As you create prototypes of your product, you should throw up some free, simple analytics to get you some rough ideas of what’s happening inside the functionality. &# This blog is to address these questions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. They controlled distribution to the masses. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Venture Capital Funding 7.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. 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

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

If you’re reading this you’ll now likely know that I became a VC in 2007 with what is now called Upfront Ventures. I had no idea I’d eventually be boxed out of the SaaS branding by Jason (SaaStr) and the LA branding by my partner Greg Bettinelli with #LongLA ! Wondering how far we could have taken things.

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