Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We’ve all become so used to having Microsoft in our lives that we’ve started to take their products and services for granted. Since then, Microsoft has come out with product after product, always improving and innovating – and you can keep counting on it to keep doing so. came out in 1985. 2. 1.0, NT, 98, ME, Vista, XP, 7.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. User experience is suffering and it’s the worst possible time with the product taking off. So, why does this happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. But sometimes “mo” is “ faux ” and then … G-d help you. It’s kind of a truism for life and certainly our industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. And of course we had, TheMan.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. We were doing this one product called “Small Business Hires”, similar to the employer app we launched today, all web-based. We were trying to raise money for this product, but then the unthinkable happened. What led you to make Proven?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) YOu should check it out.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. But the people whom I consider best in this industry are quite helpful indeed. And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He has set up an office, a process & people around him that are helpful to entrepreneurs in need of hands-on skills in a mass service way. It was created to provide peace of mind to moms looking for safe, healthy products for their kids. Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Product : You should build a product or a prototype. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Great companies are built by having great products. And a great product starts with the founder. There are other ways you can get help.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. I better roll up my sleeves and help my companies get funded.” But let me be even more clear.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

We literally had 5,000 to 10,000 SKUs to get our products out worldwide. Scott Lahman: When we first put it out in early 2009, free texting was just a huge offering. We're really competing with the product that came with your phone. Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. 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’ll help you raise the fund. They told me not to join until after the fund-raising was done.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster. The first video was created in a couple weeks by the team back in 2009 with the intention of continuing to create great content for social media. “We Readitfor.me Then a week.

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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. We also want you to use and understand this valuable product so that you may attract and retain customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships. Forwarded message -.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. And they transferred me in.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. Maybe this meme will help. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. I definitely check people out using LinkedIn.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. In 2009, when the platform was just under three years old, Nielsen put out a report stating that Twitter had grown 1,382% year-over-year. Twitter search helped me build my business and personal brand. And best of all, it was all free.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Microsoft, meanwhile, announced a new 5,000-person group Thursday dedicated to the development of AI technologies and products that use them. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We The partnership is not set up as a lobbying organization.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. How did you decide to launch HitFix?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Want to take a year pursuing your dream to write a screenplay, travel through Asia, run a triathlon or start your own fashion line?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. When you feature a “product of the week&# , “hottest blog post&# , “today’s joke&# or so, then bookmarkers will love it when its URI doesn’t change.

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