TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. How can you practice timing? Ditto people you met a while back.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. Sales people aren’t always motivated only by cash – especially in early-stage business you need to focus on equity because cash won’t be plentiful. My guess is that we are likely in total agreement.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 3, 2012

This article originally appeared at Inc.com HERE. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Did you just meet the shy boy who spent his High School years writing in his journal or the boisterous verbal bully who used her wit to hide her insecurities? Note: This is Part IV in the Startup Team Building series. Find Their Inner Child.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! In the beginning, when there is nothing, it’s easy to make promises or throw around equity. Write it down…. " If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! It drives revenue & engages guests."

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

My response was brief and straightforward, which is common of popular Quora answers (as discussed in How To Write An Effective Quora Answer ). Although my answer was off-the-cuff, the question caused me to consider the issue of raising entrepreneurial children in greater depth, which led me to write this series. No Paychecks.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

A version of this article previously appeared Forbes. We spent a lot of time talking about what type of company we wanted to create, how many employees we’d eventually have, whether we would take funding, our lifestyle, and a dozen other things that had nothing to do with writing software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.” So if I write you a $500,000 check into a convertible note with a $4.5 Some thoughts on raising angel money.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Just write me). Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Session #1, for CEOs with VC investors or over $1m raised. 7:30a – 9:30a: CEOFlow working session. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session. Session #2, for CEOs of companies without investors, or <$1m raised. 10a – 12p: CEOFlow working session.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Just write me). Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Session #1, for CEOs with VC investors or over $1m raised. 7:30a – 9:30a: CEOFlow working session. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session. Session #2, for CEOs of companies without investors, or <$1m raised. 10a – 12p: CEOFlow working session.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Just write me). Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Session #1, for CEOs with VC investors or over $1m raised. 7:30a – 9:30a: CEOFlow working session. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session. Session #2, for CEOs of companies without investors, or <$1m raised. 10a – 12p: CEOFlow working session.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Just write me). Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Session #1, for CEOs with VC investors or over $1m raised. 7:30a - 9:30a: CEOFlow working session. 9:30a - 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session. Session #2, for CEOs of companies without investors, or <$1m raised. 10a - 12p: CEOFlow working session.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

It was great to relive a moment when I was in my dorm room at Harvard and watching Toy Story 3 on my laptop and seeing something that we built with no cash, just sweat equity. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”. I was just working on the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The women in the program commit $5,000 and invest as a group of woman in a social venture in exchange for equity. Her father was reading an article about Pipeline Fellowship in Bloomberg Business Week and he realized his daughter was an adult and she may be interested in angel investing. People have to get in the game.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. The things that I talked about in the first part of this article still apply and are still relevant. I believe that Twitter has enough scale and enough brand equity to succeed. Dear Twitter, I have always loved you and I always will.

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MARCH 3, 2013

In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. I reinforced this view by referring to a very interesting article I had read by Andy Grove (co-founder & former CEO of Intel) on car batteries, china manufacturing and the problem of US outsourcing. Then there is a royalty rate.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Some startup attorneys will accept a portion of their initial fees in the form of equity. Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. Substance Over Form.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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MAY 5, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams. I’m in Seattle this week. Of course I have. Can’t list them all.

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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. m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. But I don’t think so.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010.

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that. Jody soon met with Dave McClure who ended up immediately writing a check as a placeholder investment and offering help to get EcoMom press coverage.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

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MARCH 11, 2010

If you’re interested in that topic I cover it in the article linked previously. I made a diversion in the article that I shouldn’t have taken. And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money?

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JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. Brands who build pages there are not building equity in the open Internet, they’re building it in today’s walled garden. Strategically really well positioned today.

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