Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Of course, when I started thinking about Visible Networking , I immediately went to Cliff to check in to see how he's doing and to get his feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept. I've been following both of your blogs for a while. Blogs also make it easy for new people to find those interesting conversation. Great stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment. This is the same with angel investing. How’d that work out?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

Nearly a year later, the company seemed to change course on its decision to double down on e-commerce alone, saying it planned to use the Series E funding to open three new permanent physical stores in Seattle, Los Angeles and London — as well as reopen its New York City location.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” One of the most common questions I hear from first-time entrepreneurs is, “How do I meet angels?” Think about it – who knows angels the best? It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. To mark the occasion of launching this inaugural report I am also proud to announce that we’ve also launched the Upfront Insights blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. There is a reason for this.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. Of course our execution against the strategy has had to change but the strategy has remained constant. It’s just math. discipline & focus.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We raised six million from angel investors for this otherwise brilliant concept, and several first tier VCs followed with another thirty–two million over time. Over the course of these insights here and in my BERKONOMICS series of books and blogs, we explore the use of tools to help overcome this natural tendency.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Those services — and the company’s growing business among small and medium-sized suppliers to the construction industry — brought the Austin-based company to the attention of Fifth Wall Ventures , the Los Angeles based investment firm whose limited partners are among the biggest construction companies in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 13, 2018

and Los Angeles. Samponaro, who posted a blog on Thursday describing her approach, fought for protected bike lanes in New York and led a grassroots campaign to redesign NYC’s streets. Of course, this isn’t just about making the world a better place. For now, it’s a short list that includes Washington, D.C.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. Of course – some people can be remote. Jordan Hudson.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. ” That always stuck with me. LA should be LA.”

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MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. We believe that diverse teams produce diversity of thought and that this leads to better decisions and outcomes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The story are the early investors who had foresight to back them — Lightspeed, Benchmark, IVP, SV Angel, General Catalyst, etc. Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. But of course we all need the space to be young, to experiment, to do stupid things and not to have it define our entire future. Mostly kidding.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Still, as I’ve written in the past, what I love about blogging is the ability to have a public debate where we can all learn. I believe everything I wrote then.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Of course the naysayers are out again. Of course not. I’d love even 0.5% We will do that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

It is being temporarily taken off course the whole trip. And, each time the elements take it off course, it corrects and gets back on the right path. You’ll be blown off course every day. And each time your path starts to take you in the wrong direction, you must correct and get back on course toward your goal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

Of course as a non-Korean I can only generalize but when it was my turn I told her my experience of living in Europe and Japan where failure seemed less tolerated than my experience of living in California and working in the tech sector. Many are no doubt trying to change this culture. That’s why I have links open new tabs.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Of course, Id like to believe the important community building work well be doing at the Alliance will be transformational to SoCal. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

“Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” This investment started with Dana Settle (Greycroft) and I each putting in $750,000 into a young company doing less than $1 million in sales and has blossomed into one of the fastest growing companies in Los Angeles if not the entire country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. There was Ron Conway (SV Angel) – I think there was always Ron Conway! But not many others.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that? Just posted a blog about that: [link] I've been struggling a little with making the numbers work out for some social media activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these For simplicity I’ll assume you’ve raised some money from angels or seed investors and you’re either raising an A round or a B round of venture capital. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! How Many Investors Should You Speak With?

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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. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

You need to build business relationships with partners, team members, investors, and of course customers. These days, by starting a blog or publishing on the Internet, you don’t have to be a social butterfly to get supporters and be recognized as an influencer. It doesn’t work in business.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. While angel investors like Rebecca Minkoff might be savvy to the business proposition of influencers, many investors have remained skeptical. Danielle Bernstein is just 27 years old, but she’s been running her own business for 10 years.

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