Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

In the last few years, perhaps in reaction to the business integrity issues leading to the recession way back in 2008, I am seeing a renewed focus on other less tangible attributes which can set your startup apart. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 -- Caltech Executive Education: Intellectual Property for Technology and Business Development. This 2 day course will help you learn how to manage your IP portfolio as a business. See [link] (more).

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

It was 2008. I of course paid only the negative amortization amount of $8,000 per month tacking the difference back on to the principal each month. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general. My mortgage payment was $14,400/month.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As the school year kicks off for college students, one of the big tasks of the year is buying books for their courses. What our site does, instead, is it integrates directly with a student course schedule, so you can just enter your course, and it automated the process of buying all of your books simultaneously.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2009

eSolar announced a solar power deal with Southern California Edison in June of 2008, where it would deploy 245MW of solar in the Antelope Valley by SCE. The firm said that the Sierra SunTower plant is the first of several developments it is planning in the Antelope Valley, and created over 300 jobs during the course of construction.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Of course it sounds nicer to live in a utopian socialist society where everybody has the same amount and life is “fair.” And of course it’s impossible to re-create an exact history – especially since no individual actually really knows the “truth” or remembers everything perfectly.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

And it happened again in early 2008, as CEOs reported the first evidence of order slowdowns and issues with customer payments – right before the ‘great recession.’. Every leader has stories to tell. How it works.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Monday, October 13, 2008 -- Tech PR 101 with Nicole Jordan. The Code Show brings it's second lecture to the LA startup, tech, and entertainment scene with a crash course in PR from Nicole Jordan. f your company has a clear story, the product management is effortless.

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Mixergy Entertainment Course Startup 100

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

It was 2008. I of course paid only the negative amortization amount of $8,000 per month tacking the difference back on to the principal each month. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general. My mortgage payment was $14,400/month.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 10, 2014

It was 2008. I of course paid only the negative amortization amount of $8,000 per month tacking the difference back on to the principal each month. I paid my mortgage until that day in 2008 when I started getting nervous about my business, my property value and the economy in general. My mortgage payment was $14,400/month.

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Westlake Village Report Course Product 100

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

By 2008, the first construction began on integrated experiments to make a plasma core and infuse it with some energetic particles. The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017. The feeder technology and beams alone cost $100 million, Binderbauer said. .”

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Through the course of that development, what I observed was that people who were knowledgeable about the process of credit scoring spent an inordinate amount of time imparting that knowledge to developers, who then had to build, QA, and integrate, and test it to get it right. I decided to get back to startups in August of 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 years ago. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

In the last few years, perhaps in reaction to the business integrity issues leading to the recession way back in 2008, I am seeing a renewed focus on other less tangible attributes which can set your startup apart. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. But of course, for every angle of the market where one person sees caution, another spots opportunities. But there’s no doubt, some will make money.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

And it happened again in early 2008, as CEOs reported the first evidence of order slowdowns and issues with customer payments – right before the ‘great recession.’.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. We raised $280 million. That’s why the best firms tend to raise every three years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Of course it’s much harder to identify “emerging managers” who it turns out have been some of the best performers over the past 5-7 years such as Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, First Round Capital, True Ventures, Greycroft, Foundry Group, Thrive and Upfront Ventures. and the bigger funds can’t get in directly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Of course you should read the book so I don’t bastardize his arguments but two (of the six) guiding principles come down to competition and science. Just look at our rebound from the financial crisis of 2008 as something that I feel proud of as an American. In it he makes the case for why the West has come to dominate the world.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. There are so many incredible ups and downs in the course of building your own company from the ground up. However, you need to show progress over the course of when we have gotten to know you. Startups are hard.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

Carol Hall and I started our business Absentminded in 2008, making iPhone applications. In the course of doing that, we realized there was this market opportunity, and set out to create the ad network. What''s your background and how did you get into this? Jennifer Noonan: There are three partners at MobiGirl.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The TCA financed 25 companies last year, which was only down 20 percent from the number of deals we did in 2008, which was our peak year. In 2008, I began angel investing more actively, and found the TCA, which is just a great group filled with accomplished angel investors, looking to help CEOs. Of course not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

Scott Dudelson: Swagbucks.com has been around since February of 2008. That mutated into us thinking why not have our own, central portal based on Swagbucks, which is where Swagbucks.com came along. How long have you been running the site as a central portal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Of course, IPO funds can be used to finance a big development effort, but the delay in payback will likely cause a quick stock price decline, which invokes the challenge of continuous growth mentioned above. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. But remember what you learned in your MBA course – less downside / less upside … risk vs. reward. About 18 months ago in early 2008 we hired an analyst (pre-MBA), but wanted to wait until after Summer to hire a post-MBA associate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

In the last few years, perhaps in reaction to the business integrity issues leading to the recession back in 2008, I am seeing a renewed focus on other less tangible attributes which can set your startup apart. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. Of course, IPO funds can be used to finance a big development effort, but the delay in payback will likely cause a quick stock price decline, which invokes the challenge of continuous growth mentioned above. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] And of course Foundry Group, Union Square and a whole host of other firms including my own. And of course you will produce our next wave of innovation. The top quartile funds have performed well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Of course, the right approach is to be proactive along all the following fronts: Reputation management.

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Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

In 2008 I met Kris Krug. We share several auspiciously random overlapping networks, and since 2008 our friendship has blossomed into a deep personal friendship and working collaboration.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

When I got there, two complaints were showing, both from 2008. Rick replied with: The algorithm that we use takes into account a variety of factors in its calculation and one of them of course is complaint traffic but also such factors as your length of time in business. 2008 Closed Complaints – 2. Here are some stats.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

in 2008 and 2009, we had at that point righted many of the wrongs in the venture capital industry, but that didn''t mean that entrepreneurship was all of a sudden healthy. We''ve made a few distributions already, up to ten times the course fee that someone contributed to participate in the program. In Adeo''s words, ". And we''ve had.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Well, obviously if you knew that in advance it would be big of course that would be true. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. And of course there are always outliers. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

I got off relatively easy with a short course of chemotherapy and radiation. When Xconomy came to San Diego in 2008, he also readily volunteered to help our editorial mission as an Xconomist. ). It was a wry thing to say, and generous under the circumstances. My diagnosis was cancer with a little c: Early stage Hodgkins Lymphoma.

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