Both Sides of the Table

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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OCTOBER 10, 2010

Having teachers unions in 2010 is so archaic and leads us to have public school systems where the best teachers are paid the same as the worst ones. Lawrence) both helped me master the rules of writing and tap into my creativity. So in addition to economics, writing & computers I had great exposure to the arts and to music.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.

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Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 19, 2010

Watch Jacob become a big brother, right before your eyes: April 16, 2010 12:54 AM: JAG: Anything? April 16, 2010 1:59 AM: JAG: And? April 16, 2010 2:12 AM: HMB: Baby!!! Mom suffered some complications shortly thereafter, but will be fine and as I write this, remains in the hospital for observation. Making progress.

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Writing 139

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JANUARY 31, 2010

So no prizes for guessing my New Year’s resolution for 2010. I plan to be 25 pounds lighter by December 31st, 2010. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had. Somehow this is more honest.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 1, 2010

Thursday, March 4, 2010 -- Henry Samueli, co-founder Broadcom Corporation on Entrepreneurship. Topics include start-up strategies, business idea evaluation, business plan writing, and introduction to venture capital. UCI-Calit2. See [link] (more).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” Write down the customer pains so you’ll have them for later. Customers sometimes buy things spontaneously without thinking through what their actual need is. It’s just human nature. Ask questions the whole time.

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Sales Slides Startup Customer 367

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We’ve gotten to the point where after the film The Social Network and now with our own ironic HBO drama “Silicon Valley,” (makes it sound like writing a algorithm can easily net you $10 million without trying) one might think starting a company is a bit like the gold rush where riches flow to you with ease.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 22, 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010 -- Accessing Government Funding for Research. Attend this SoCalBio Workshop to sharpen your grant-writing skills and learn how to tap various government funding opportunities from the NIH and DoD. Numerous U.S. See https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jyvcp. 123signup.com/register?id=jyvcp.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. Yet the truth is that I see angels with great deal flow & great instincts whom I believe will only perform well in times that favor angel investors (like 2010) where there are early exits.

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Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 16, 2010

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents:Windows Phone 7 What's New and What's Next. In the second half of the session we will write a Windows Phone 7 application from scratch showing off the development environment and some of the apis you will be working with. See [link] (more).

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Writing Design Marketing Develop 100

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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. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Let’s buy more!&#.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

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MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money?

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Competition 319

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JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Total raised: $16.0mm.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. They do both well.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. You are most vulnerable right after it has been announced that you won (I will write a separate post on this). Promise you won’t be defensive or try to change the decision. Be gracious.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul. Do They Believe? StumbleUpon stumbled upon this entry. 2012 And Beyond.

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Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. I will write about some of these topics soon. Bad times are when M&A halts to a trickle and this is when many businesses are rushing to get exits. We’ll re-compare notes then. Why should you care?

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. Jimmy Hendricks: We launched in April of 2010, and within 90 days we realized that it was much, much bigger than our contest software. Our media clients were telling us that they were losing revenues to Groupon.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. You are most vulnerable right after it has been announced that you won (I will write a separate post on this). Promise you won’t be defensive or try to change the decision. Be gracious.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

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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.)

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. But I wrote about one other point that I wrote back in March 2010 so it’s clear I didn’t just dream this up after today’s panel. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going. That’s awesome.

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Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel good startups. In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great.

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Yet 2010 is already showing me how connected our lives and our health are starting to become. Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. So as I contemplated the kick off to 2010 I thought again about Weight Watchers. Seemed such a fantasy back in 1992. We’ll see.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. I know in 2010 this doesn’t seem obvious to everybody but it’s my judgment.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use. Kinect for Xbox 360, released in November of 2010, sold 8 million units in the first 60 days of its release. 5. Microsoft donated over $504 million worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010.

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Writing Training Email .Net 88

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. ShopNation : ShopNation, currently in stealth mode, is a next generation shopping platform launching in 2010.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. Established In 2010 By PayPal’s First Head of US marketing.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

But many of these aren’t integrated with the way that their customers want to communicate with them in 2010. You should be actively listening the whole time (actively listening as in listening, writing important things down and asking relevant questions as they talk about their problems).

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Sales Startup Venture Capital Customer 314

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I just write. I told her I need “20 minutes” to write a blog post. Keep on writing. I took 2 of those morning to write blog posts and then read. Why do I write all of this? I wrote this in January 2010. I don’t write perfect blog posts. I don’t worry about typos. No editing.

Blogging 150

Blogging Writing Startup Email 150

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is my sole objective for January of 2010. Today, I received this email from the BBB: We’re writing to let you know that during the past month the Reliability Report that we publish on Make It Work was accessed 6 times. Great I said, but why use the BBB email address and pose as a BBB staff member if that’s the case?

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Santa Barbara Technical Advisors Email Technical Review 265

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

My first job was as a page at NBC, and after that I went and did a year and a half of writing and production at MSNBC with Keith Olbermann and Chuck Scarborough. Dollar Shave Club came to me about two years ago, in December of 2010, when I met my co-founder, who was my friend's fianc's father.

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. . * Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world. And, I dont like to copy and paste. Posted byTony Karrer at 8:47 AM 4comments: Famous Quotations said.

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Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Later, when I was in the tax business at Intuit and H&R Block, running those businesses, every year we had to hire a couple hundred tax professionals, who had to unwind the tax code, and who had to write it all down to give again to developers, in order for them to interpret and provide a usable product to consumers.

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Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. We grew out of an interesting use case. It ran in April of 2008.

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Journal USC News Startup 187