Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. There are no shortcuts to success. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product. The best way to do this is to reference actual data from a recent similar startup success. Investors want to know how and when they might see some return on their investment, since startups require some event to show value.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. And it would be?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

It’s pretty tricky to make money without understanding where that money is coming from and what kind of cost investment it will take to become cash-flow positive. If you create your financial model right out of the gate, you have a financial trail that you can refer back to—where were you and where are you now?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. If I feel a priori that the CEO can’t cut it I’m highly unlikely to invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. When times are bad many cease investment activity all together. Investing is our core business. They’ll pay up for it and promise much.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

San Francisco-based investment firm Saints Capital , and Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners said Tuesday that they have formed a new fund, Saints Rustic Canyon, L.P., the parent firm of the Los Angeles Times before its acquisition by the Tribune Company. Financial details of the sale were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products. The tools and measurements are the same for both.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. They may have the finances you need to invest in a business area they know, where you have the core competency.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

It’s not easy, but I believe that every time you look to open an office for your business you have to look at it as truly an investment in your business. During the past 15-years, Citrix grew via acquisition, which resulted in the company having lease obligations all over the world. Steve Bermudez: (laughs) No kidding. Brilliant. .

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

More recently in 2015, Kiel helped launch Machine Shop Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in early-to-growth stage companies with a global scope. Joe Guzel leads investing activity at CrossCut Ventures. Machine Shop Ventures was featured in WIRED Magazine for its groundbreaking new model. Joe received his B.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products. The tools and measurements are the same for both.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Where your competitor isn''t really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. They may have the finances you need to invest in a business area they know, where you have the core competency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products. The tools and measurements are the same for both.

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Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Investments at this stage are typically called seed investments. This is the realm of venture capital professional investors, with funding amounts of $1-10 million, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. Funding will only come from you, or friends, family, and fools. Early or embryonic stage.

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Startup Venture Capital Demand Invest 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. They may have the finances you need to invest in a business area they know, where you have the core competency.

Startup 55

Startup Outsource Competition Entrepreneur 55

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. And they have. Innovation. MakeSpace set out to reinvent the whole category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Lon references one Fortune 500 company he worked with which accumulated more than 19 million friends, all chatting about its products. The tools and measurements are the same for both.

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Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation. I had worked before at BEA Systems, the middleware company which was acquired by Oracle in 2004 or 2005, and we used to joke that the company had been built entirely by acquisitions. How did you decide to get involved with the company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Investments at this stage are typically called seed investments. This is the realm of venture capital professional investors, with funding amounts of $1-10 million, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. Funding will only come from you, or friends, family, and fools. Early or embryonic stage.

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Startup Venture Capital Demand Invest 92

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP. Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment. That got us the attention of Bain Capital Ventures for our next round, which, combined with our prior investors, gave us another $17M, for about a total of $20M in investment.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Back in January, at the annual TechZulu Startup Forecast , our panel of industry leaders and investors spent a healthy dose of time discussing the ongoing JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) and the investing sphere at large. This all, circling around 2008, a shy year for startup investments. Fundraising Frustrations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly So with DataSift I’m doubling down.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Also, consider asking for a carve-out for acquisitions.” However, if you are an emerging entrepreneur seeking institutional funding, the time and monetary investment required to read Venture Deals will undoubtedly yield a positive ROI. Such detailed, practical counsel can prove to be priceless.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 1, 2016

Have your slides there, reference the key points as needed, but keep the focus on each other — not a slideshow. You need to subtly convey that your deal is going to get done regardless of their investment. Every investor wants to invest in a confident team. Investors are foremost looking to invest in people.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

He was also often referred to as a “hotdog” for his self-promotional antics and lackadaisical on-field play. Hands-on management of these teammates is a worthwhile investment, as they have the ability to eventually enhance their productivity to a high-performing level. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. During those same 25-years, I also made innumerable mistakes.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

When Mucker found out about us, they invested in us, even though it was just me out there in the streets running around Home Depot, unemployment offices, and staffing companies, handing out business cards. I figured if we could do it right, we could engage a broader population trying to find work. That's really how it started.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Troy represents what I believe the best magic of Los Angeles is – the merging together of creative talent with technical talent and he brings the lessons learned from these two fields into investments nationally. ” But I thought Troy really nailed it when he talked about his investment philosophy going forward.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

The latest evidence of the city’s dynamic startup ecosystem is the recent announcement by Citrix to investment significant resources in the Santa Barbara Innovator’s Program. Many of these individuals become restless in their youthful “retirement” and begin investing and advising young companies. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

If your "competitor" isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. They may have the finances you need and are ready to invest in a business area they know. Cross endorsement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

If your "competitor" isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. They may have the finances you need and are ready to invest in a business area they know. Cross endorsement.

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Startup Examples Custom Customer 90

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I apologize, but I don’t invest in your space and thus I’m pretty ignorant as to your ecosystem. If so, it seems there might eventually be consolidation – either a rollup or a series of acquisitions by a commercial carrier. It’s so important for our children to forge their own paths.

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