Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

First of all, I will admit that there is some risk involved with talking to any potential investors, even with an agreement, just as there is risk in all the elements of your plan, product and market opportunity. Product details in the public domain can never be patented. Sharing trade secrets. Select a reasonable agreement duration.

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Ideas Tips Technical Review Patents 159

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JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. These trends have put pressure on traditional VCs. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK. Funny, that.

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Venture Capital Capital Software Startup 296

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. Venture capital investments are returning to startups. Venture capital firms raised $4.1 Incentive to do something you love. Now many of them are doing it.

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Startup Tips Venture Capital Demand 86

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Series A round.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product). Much less has been said about when the technical CEO is the best person to run the company.

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CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2012

There are lots of sites, with different codes to choose from, some of which are expired, some of which are for product that you aren't buying. I was an Associate at a venture capital firm in Boston, I was a startup founder, I was employee six at a venture backed startup, I was an IT analyst at Forrester Research.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

Whatever type of content you run – and be it a music, video or print platform – Native Ads uses well-made and resourced content to advertise products in a way that makes advertising a positive addition, rather than a negative affect. StreamSpread provides a great means for advertising that will actively engage audiences.

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Advertising Platform Venture Capital Content 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive. Nothing drives me more bonkers than board members who want to hold dissertations on 409a valuations, product feature minutiae or spend 30 minutes on how many people they know that they can introduce you to.

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Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. They are also driving down the margins they make and are offering products that are initially lower functionality than their competitors. Venture capital will be easy and then hard.

Marketing 361

Marketing Course Pricing Networking 361

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

First of all, I will admit that there is some risk involved with talking to any potential investors, even with an agreement, just as there is risk in all the elements of your plan, product and market opportunity. Product details in the public domain can never be patented. Sharing trade secrets. Select a reasonable agreement duration.

Ideas 106

Ideas Technical Review Patents Entrepreneur 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

We create a profile page, which allows referrals to be sent out, to allow businesses to request things from their customers. I've actually gone to four startup, so far, taking them from prototype to production, when they are able to sell the company or have it run on its own. How far is the product?

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Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Erik Deutsch, ExcelPR Group.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Neerg is an ecommerce store and community where consumers and merchants can "be and buy green" products and connect with like minded individuals. Want to Sponsor? to 11:00 p.m.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. He was stuck on capital raising. This was such a guy.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We also provide production support, and we're also very proactive in monitoring items that might affect them, supporting the specific versions of software they are running. Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive. So far so good.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. For one-off or task based activities, use AmazonTurk or Odesk. Determine a pricing system for your product(s).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

HUBkap allows you to: Plan - Create, manage and communicate all your daily activities with the people that matter most - all on one calendar. Discover - Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. We'd like to thanks our valued sponsors HubKap, SocialGuides, Christian Gammill , Will You Trend?,

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. TCA is a not-for-profit organization. Want to Sponsor?

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. We spoke with Ross about the investment, as well as about his experience as VC and his outlook on the market. Thanks for the interview. We're pretty excited about it.

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Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. Create, manage and communicate all your daily activities with the people that matter most - all on one calendar. We invite you to bring your world into ours. .

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

For those just tuning in, The Immunity Project is a nonprofit initiative using a unique combination of crowdfunding and venture capital, along with a novel machine learning approach in devising an HIV vaccine. Active project of Until There’s a Cure , one of the Bay Area’s leading HIV/AIDS nonprofit foundations.

Artificial Inteligence 110

Artificial Inteligence AMA Organization Research 110

Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush?

Startup 40

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Advertising 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush?

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush?

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

You need to first create a compelling product. Compelling in the sense that you solve a real problem a target group of potential customers has with a product that is significantly better than the alternatives on that market. You need product / market fit. Product / market fit is everything. ” True.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush?

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Contributors include GRAMMY winning composers and Oscar winning sound effects artists and production houses.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

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MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. Quigo set up a system on specific web pages.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Do this for a couple weeks!

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. As a VC it’s how I think through which markets will be attractive in the future, which ones I want to be in now and how the technology & business world will likely evolve.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. More venture capitalists also are putting down roots. All Rights Reserved.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. at a level of specificity you don’t always find in VCs. Part 1: Inside the mind of an angel investor and how it differs from professional seed investors and VC. Hope you all enjoy.

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Angel vs VC? - Here’s why.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

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MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. 15 minutes.

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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285