Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Jeff Carmody, Co-Founder of Agility Capital and a successful institutional investor, provided me with the outline shown below. Competition. Capitalization. Who do I write the check to and where do I send it? Management Team.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” Bowery Capital). It should help some entrepreneurs to better access early-stage capital and should allow some angel investors better access to deal flow. So What’s the Big Deal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Finally for startups there’s a $31 billion available for programs that give small businesses access to credit, venture capital, and R&D dollars. The sad fact is that water infrastructure in America has largely failed to keep up in large swaths of the country, necessitating this kind of massive capital infusion.

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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. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. That changed very quickly.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 10, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Jackson Brown sat at his kitchen table, pulled out a pad of paper and began writing advice to his son, who had just entered college. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! In the Fall of 1990, H. Discover.".

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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. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Hopefully this article and the accompanying six-minute video will help you avoid learning these mission-critical lessons the hard way. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Thus, you have negotiating leverage as long as a legitimate, competitive threat exists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. Your competitive advantage. Don’t kill your credibility by saying you have no competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If such write-downs only impacted the faux unicorns and their avaricious investors, there would be little need for alarm. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Find A Partner Not A Banker.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

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). In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin. Availability of Capital.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

free weekly Infochachkie articles! The more you play around with ideas and you write them down, the better. Competition – which competitors will prove to be the most formidable? Differentiation – what color are my elephant’s sunglasses , how I will beat the competition? How much money can I make?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. Your competitive advantage. Don’t kill your credibility by saying you have no competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

Almost certainly the startup would have raised some capital. Get yourself in a big demo day competition. Acquihires and Venture Capital. But that’s not how you make money in the venture capital business. ” Note: image from PandoDaily, clicking it will take you to the article in which I found it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. Should I write off my $2.5 I know it’s not as sexy as a faster growth rate and a larger round of capital. Let’s see.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Patents held by startups generally have a limited ability to reduce competition. Even if your company is not acquired and you elect to access the public capital markets via an IPO, the above tenets remain valid. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. One of them is profitability.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in Forbes. The more you play around with ideas and you write them down, the better. Competition – which competitors will prove to be the most formidable? Differentiation – what color are my elephant’s sunglasses , how I will beat the competition? Slow Hunches Lead To Breakthroughs.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Most importantly, it just doesn't feel right to us to hold positions in competitive companies. In retrospect, our decision was both perfectly rational and completely lame.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

In this age of information overload, success is all about building a brand that stands out above the competition. Of course, she assumes that you are confident and courageous, and willing to capitalize on all your strengths and opportunities to market yourself. Start a blog and write for industry forums and newsletters.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

A version of this article previously appeared Forbes. 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. We could need more capital over time which means we would own less of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. Your competitive advantage. Don’t kill your credibility by saying you have no competition.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Charley Grant, writing in The Wall Street Journal , commented that, “Any action to curb price increases on older drugs would hurt manufacturers that rely on them to generate growth.” Competitive markets are the most-efficient mechanism yet devised for matching price and value. It has started.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. 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. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made.&# The data in this article is at best, a stretch. The paper is surprisingly much more balanced in its assertions than this TechCrunch article. I suspect he’s not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Who do you view as your biggest competition? You have tremendous momentum and clearly could have raised capital from a variety of sources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

How much investment capital will you need to pull this off? How will the inevitable changes in markets, consumer behaviors, and competitive offerings affect outcomes? When you sit down to start working on a business plan, grab four blank sheets of paper and write the words Opportunity, Solution, Execution, and Outcomes across the top.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Natalia not only wants to increase the number of women in investment, but bring more people in total to help startups and other businesses get the capital they need. We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. What is Pipeline Fellowship about?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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