InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

However, the adjective “electric” was eventually dropped when all the devices in a product category utilized the technology. Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. ASP To SaaS To Software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2015

One of the big questions that every entrepreneur struggles with is how much funding they should request from investors in the first round. Professional investors expect to see your top three use of funds categories, and how these relate to scaling the business, rather than initial development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Most investors won’t touch a first-time entrepreneur at this stage. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 billion, 2,034 deals) and the third quarter of 2015 ($21.1 What is most interesting is the activity beneath the headline data.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

“We’re focusing now on re-disrupting categories that moved early online, but in some ways, have been freeze-dried since then. And then with Schwab, who was just a small, discount broker when I joined them and we rose to dominant market share in three categories in brokerage. ’ Guess what, it changes completely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

It’s still considered high risk for investment, since manufacturing and quality issues are likely. But to prevent confusion with basic R&D, these costs should never be called out the major category in your use of funds statement to investors. Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Not to mention USV’s investments in MongoDB (10Gen), Lending Club and a host of others. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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