Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. You can be pissed off, but I don’t set prices. That’s stupid.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. There is no such thing as a super angel, only “micro VCs&# - Ron Conway said what I had been preparing to say, “there’s no such thing as a super angel.&# Either you’re an angel or you manage professional funds. Price creep hurts investors.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Wander is one-such service providing high speed wireless internet in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. Talk about how the company is backed? After that, we had a $7.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

As an angel investor and business advisor on new ventures, I expect to see five-year financial projections from every entrepreneur. Does this entrepreneur understand the basics of business costs in the selected business domain, growth dynamics, and the competitive environment? Project unit-volume and price levels.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. Talk about how the company is backed? After that, we had a $7.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

Here is my list, based on my own experience as a startup advisor, talking to other angel investors, and derived from the lean startup principles of venture advisor and entrepreneur Eric Ries : Strip the solution down to a focus on a key feature. Existing users are trained by use, and rarely move for usability alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2018

Selecting and nurturing people who are likely to help you in this regard is an even more elusive capability, and one that every angel investor, like myself, wishes he could get a lock on. They just need the inspiration, time, and training to capitalize on these tools, and the new devices that arrive every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2012

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. Others stage elaborate “training” sessions, to “assure” that everyone tells the same story. The right answer is somewhere in between.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The firm is co-founded by Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake, and ExerciseTV, and has received investment from prolific angel investor Ron Conway and Polar Capital, the investment firm of former Google President Tim Armstrong. Nick Desai: With FitOrbit, there's an extremely high value, at a low cost price. Thanks for talking with us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2013

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. Others stage elaborate “training” sessions, to “assure” that everyone tells the same story. The right answer is somewhere in between.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate. People want to invest in people they trust – once you’ve made money for someone you can always go back, and even get better pricing. o Everything is for sale but it’s the price that moves the timing. He told them it was now or never.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 11, 2015

Angelous’] many other works.” Mitigating Downside – Unlike the private sector, in which many buyers are focused on gaining a competitive advantage, the fear of loss is often the primary criteria motivating politicians and their appointees. In other words, “if we had known it was a mistake, we wouldn’t have done it.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2010

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. Others stage elaborate “training” sessions, to “assure” that everyone tells the same story. The right answer is somewhere in between.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Such follow-up are akin to a train whistle. Each note alerts the investors that your venture is gaining momentum and creating value and they better jump aboard before the train leaves the station. The dynamic of a competitive atmosphere allowed him to sell his cars at their list price while increasing the velocity of the sales process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The other strategic was a train wreck. When you deal with doctors or dentists for angel money, for example, you’re dealing with people who don’t. You may find that when you want to sell your company it is harder to get a fair price. One month after investing the guy who invested left his firm. See point 5 above.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. From: Los Angeles, CA. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. From: Los Angeles, CA. Gamify your training. Kitterly, Inc.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Semick: In the beginning, many of our conversations were about whether we wanted funding from angel investors and eventually VCs.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. Erin Chase – Favado , combining price comparisons with grocery shopping. Big ups to the Twitch.TV

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Jamie Siminoff is not only one of the single best true entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, he’s amongst the best we’ve worked with in the country. Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. we were sold on the concept immediately. We weren’t sure.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). There is no competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As an angel investor, I certainly see continuing evidence that this phenomenon hasn’t changed much in the past couple of decades. Paradigm-shift solutions have no competition." The real competition to a new paradigm is the old paradigm. The first airplane faced major competition from trains and automobiles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Today we find out when commuter trains are late or roads are closed because our friends or local news agencies Tweet them to us. In the future trains will auto tweet and potentially update displays in train stations or airplanes can tell us when they will arrive at the gate in stead of us talking with the uninformed gate representative.

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