InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 9, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on The Wall Street Journal. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Making access to capital easier for women founders is part of what inspires and motivates me to win big with Tradesy.". What Gives?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We will be opening up a a round of funding soon, as soon as we have some metrics and have been live in the market, and hope to raise some money and capital in the next thirty days. As we've built this relationship with them, we let them see the mobile and social metrics, and make it so that they're able to create a campaign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article. I said both in the article but felt compelled to provide a statement up front for the skimmers. We passed on all of these deals and often tried to discuss the possibility of more modest amounts of capital raised and at more realistic prices.

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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

MAY 16, 2015

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

Because at least while the VC spigot is open and flowing for high-potential individuals that fit a pattern that some VCs seem to favor they can access cheap capital that isn’t terribly dilutive and can use the to fund development and swing for the fences with limited focus on monetization. Or anybody who remotely resembles you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money. 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. Thats right on the money. No small task Ben.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This article originally ran on PEHub. Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Maxwell Wessel, in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. You need to think through what points are most important in your particular case, and capitalize on your strengths. That’s your metric to see if you have their attention. Marty Zwilling.

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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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that three of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics. Offline engagement platform EyeQ.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Capital Cards. We pooled our resources and each invested $50 into the adVenture, which we named Capital Cards, due to our proximity to Washington, DC. We quickly built upon our meager initial capital by buying and selling cards that otherwise would likely have ended up in landfills.

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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. You need to think through what points are most important in your particular case, and capitalize on your strengths. That’s your metric to see if you have their attention. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

I’ve observed the following scenario in both of my companies and in countless others I’ve advised or invested in: - your company becomes moderately high profile in a few press articles. Subjective warrants – I also see warrants given out without hard metrics. I believe that PBW’s should have hard metrics.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Lifestyle businesses are typically looked upon with derision by investors, as they generally do not have economic metrics that lead to large exits.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. His best advice: take capital where you can get it. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. include reference and link to article about milestone fundraising]. Vendor funding.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Today, the Puget Sound region is home to intense, interconnected innovation clusters that are continuing to pioneer in information technology, the cloud, e-commerce, gaming, data science, sensors, global health (including health metrics), neuroscience, and more. ” That would be death. And with good reason.

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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. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Financial forecast and metrics. Include a current valuation estimate.

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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. You need to think through what points are most important in your particular case, and capitalize on your strengths. That’s your metric to see if you have their attention. Marty Zwilling.

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CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

They don’t take into account that the metrics involved in outbound sales (owing to customer acquisition costs) makes that data meaningless. … continue on for full article A serial CEO also observed that “you had more time to prove out&# your business model in years past.

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CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

They don’t take into account that the metrics involved in outbound sales (owing to customer acquisition costs) makes that data meaningless. … continue on for full article A serial CEO also observed that “you had more time to prove out&# your business model in years past.

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CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

They don’t take into account that the metrics involved in outbound sales (owing to customer acquisition costs) makes that data meaningless. … continue on for full article. A serial CEO also observed that “you had more time to prove out&# your business model in years past.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

free weekly Infochachkie articles! For instance, when a venture capital partner votes for a follow-on investment in exchange for the future support of one of her investments, idea cronyism is at work. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Here are all the challenges he had to face in order to pull this off, watch this… And to see “Electrified” live in action, watch this… That’s what this article is about; how the impossible can be possible, but it takes a lot of perseverance and support to make it through the very difficult journey.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Once you create a small list of these queries, then you can start to formalize the ideas into specific metrics that you track daily. Aggregate metrics. Still metrics about traffic are not leads.

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