Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. When one considers the 400 richest people on the entire planet, the percentage of non-college graduates doubles.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Can you imagine investing in the stock market where your price was determined at a future date and the better that company performed the HIGHER the price you paid for that investment. So if I write you a $500,000 check into a convertible note with a $4.5 What happens in a sale or acqui-hire? That would suck.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

After my latest company collapsed in June of 2012, I went into a bit of a depression. I love coffee, food, farming, sales, marketing and running a startup with great potential. Today, as I write this, I’m working on several deals in the world of coffee and other food products. Restarting continues. It was perfect.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Recently, we had a great opportunity to sit down and chat with Amanda Bensol, head BD/Marketing for Karma. That’s what drew me to them as I hopped on board for PR/marketing, and a little bit of sales and operations.” Their year will incorporate a significant marketing push. Share More, Get More.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. You can do this by really understanding your target market and creating them a PDF outlining the solution you will be creating for them. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. So, how is it you ended up going from a technology infrastructure entrepreneur at SkyPipeline, to the consumer market with Visalus? Tell us a bit of the story on how you started HashtagOne?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

In this role, Alex was responsible for developing HostPro’s shared, dedicated and managed businesses with 430 employees in sales, marketing, engineering, and product development. Before co-founding Bitium, Scott was VP of Product for Fastpoint Games, a sports and entertainment gaming company that sold to WePlay in 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

The market for domain investors has been in the doldrums for the last few years, since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) has rolled out top-level domains for every country, like.us Only one sold for 7 figures in 2012 (investing.com sold for $2.5 Get the agreement in writing as quickly as possible.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Daily deal” couponing continues to be a popular tool among consumers and marketers, and many major companies have implementing their own version of the trend. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. This stimulates additional marketing and revenue for merchants.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It was the morning of June 26th, 2012. You get to learn everything from marketing to sales to accounting to business development to being able to make pretty websites and graphics. Then, I’m doing emails, accounting, HR, writing proposals, interviewing potential hires, and other random tasks until noon.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Idea Mensch.

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