Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2013

In my view, entrepreneurship has always been the ultimate embodiment of capitalism, and quite synonymous with free enterprise. Yet I find that more and more young entrepreneurs are uncomfortable with the term “capitalism”, somehow thinking that it prioritizes “making money” above all else.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. Zack Whittaker contributed reporting for this article. .

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners is the lead investor in a Northern California firm focused on the blogging and publishing industry, Apture. Apture develops tools which allow publishers to highlight and link terms in articles to multimedia popups, showing additional information, videos, photos, and other content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. The investor perspective is that no manufacturing or inventory implies a minimal need for capital up front. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Henry Blodget , was once the darling of Wall Street covering Internet securities at Merrill Lynch’s and reporting on businesses such as Infospace, Internet Capital Group and Amazon. Recently Ken Auletta wrote an in-depth seven-page article in the New Yorker on Blodget pre-empting what some are surmising is a move back Wall Street.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

A good friend of mine was features on the front cover of the LA Times business section with a glowing article. Just notice how many VC emails you get after your TechCrunch article or after you were on stage at TC50. It has logos of the 5-6 most prominent places they’ve been covered with a paragraph from each article.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Henry Blodget , was once the darling of Wall Street covering Internet securities at Merrill Lynch’s and reporting on businesses such as Infospace, Internet Capital Group and Amazon. Recently Ken Auletta wrote an in-depth seven-page article in the New Yorker on Blodget pre-empting what some are surmising is a move back Wall Street.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

You can sign-up via the "Personalize Your Content" button on the right side of the interface shown to the right of the red arrow below. It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals. Every time I visit it, I find something that I missed that was really good content.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge. Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. The investor perspective is that no manufacturing or inventory implies a minimal need for capital up front. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Inc. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. Our inventory is being financed by companies with names like Chase, Citibank, First USA and Capital One.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we thought we'd share a recent article penned by Clearstone Ventures' William Quigley. Bill was like a Willy Wonka who didnt want to confine himself to the chocolate bar, and in my work for Idealab Capital Partners, I felt a bit like Charlie. Continued.). READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. I talked about that in detail on this post about how to blog as a startup. You’re reading their press releases or blog posts. I wrote about it in detail in this article. They come and go.

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JULY 6, 2016

In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital. I find it distracting that when you click on a link you’re taken away from the main blog and need to hit the back button to remember to finish the article. That’s why I have links open new tabs.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing.

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MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. It makes it extraordinarily hard to raise the next round of capital. Or as the article on Y Combinator suggests, “is your accent too heavy?”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. This series inspired me to start my blog as a VC. tl;dr version: If you’re an entrepreneur or VC or will be working in this industry - buy this. Drag along rights?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Inc. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. Our inventory is being financed by companies with names like Chase, Citibank, First USA and Capital One.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. We are productizing the raising of capital for startups. ”. Capital is very mobile, but capitalists are not.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Like music, movies and blog entries, startups are a remix of that which came before. Case in point, in addition to Kirby’s films, this article was inspired by a Malcolm Gladwell article, entitled, Something Borrowed , which I read several years ago. You be the judge.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Fan, Not A Fan Boy. I was not disapointed.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the previous six months, I’d read several articles in finance blogs or newsletters about yet another company that had just been financed in their specific vertical. These entrepreneurs were too young to attract the amount of capital they’d need to compete in this new environment.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Guest article by Eva Hibnick with General Assembly LA. Article after article points out that Los Angeles is on its way to becoming one of the most robust startup communities in the United States. We have seen this growth first hand, and are always impressed by the community’s appetite for learning new age technical skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. This 1-minute video shows exactly what Invoca does.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. And that leads me to today’s post.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. Losses in over-capitalized “vintage years” over the last two decades have left institutional investors (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2010

By Adam Hoeksema According to a report distributed by the Angel Capital Education Foundation , total startup funding from venture capital funds, state funds, and angel investors totals approximately $20.8 Surprisingly, friends and family contributed nearly three times the amount of capital to thousands of startups each year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I think my mentality to banker pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made.&# The data in this article is at best, a stretch. So it is with entrepreneurship. Wadhwa wrote.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2018

Or, maybe instead, it’s a day filled with long lunches and listless Internet surfing, as you seek out all the interesting articles you missed during the week. Fridays can be the most productive work day, as you look to shore up everything before the weekend starts.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As the authors make clear in the book’s preface, their goal is to create a “definitive guide to venture capital deals” and “demystify the venture capital financing process.” free weekly Infochachkie articles! If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. The Magicians Tells Their Secrets.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

What I *SHOULD HAVE* considered was that I was in college in a time when there were no digital cameras and I’m very thankful for that or I likely wouldn’t be writing this blog post today. Because that would a very long and bitchy article I’m sure. Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. Mostly kidding.

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