Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it. Fred Wilson wrote on his blog this week about learning from failures here and quoted Obama’s speech from tonight: you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. Continue to meet with senior executives at the buying organization.

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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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We need to be on a path-finding mission to find tangential investments,” he told reporters.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college. 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.

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I met with many deeply talented entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, community organizers and professionals who are thriving in these separate yet overlapping (and interdependent) ecosystems. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018?

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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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Technology Council

MARCH 31, 2009

The Technology Council of Southern California and TechEmpower are happy to announce the launch of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2019

In the eyes of the San Diego Venture Group, the key element is readiness for venture capital backing. It’s through that lens that the nonprofit organization, whose mission is to connect local startups with venture capitalists who are looking to invest, annually vets tech companies that apply for its “Cool Companies” program.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Tiny Rhode Island and its capital city Providence have always punched above their weight, for better or for worse. Worse: After World War II, one Providence neighborhood became the nerve center of New England organized crime and one of its mayors the ne plus ultra of civic corruption—twice elected, and twice a felon.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. I am inspired by the constant innovation in our industry by First Round Capital like the Dorm Room Fund , their expansion to Philadelphia (I hope they also have a secret plot to replace Andy Reid while there), the exchange fund and other initiative. You’re very organized.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2019

She succeeds Greg McKee, who served as president and CEO of the San Diego-based organization for five years before stepping down last month to start a venture capital fund. Mah is executive director of Hera Labs, an accelerator program for women-owned businesses.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At SCE Carrier Solutions, our team of experts knows that no two organizations are alike; as a result, we work with our customers to pick a fiber optic solution that best suits their particular needs. We find that many smaller organizations are unaware of the benefits of Wavelength services. Download the Network Solutions Guide.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. Asking young companies with limited capital to pay to present to a group of potential investors is insane.

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Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2020

At the start of 2020 thousands of biotechies anticipated spending the second week of June in San Diego, hobnobbing at the annual conference hosted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. Instead, attendees from 64 countries spanning 28 times zones convened online this week for the first-ever virtual BIO International Convention.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

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. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

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. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. And it was really kinda. Crowdsourced Advisors.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. This is generally how I try to organize my own views and how I try to give advice. He came to me months ago asking about a “strategic round” of capital for his startup at a high price. What is a founder to do? Draw from Frameworks. For example: 1.

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Xconomy

MAY 27, 2019

. —Local entrepreneurs have dozens of speakers teed up and get-togethers organized for Startup Week, which kicks off Tuesday. Startup Week is produced by Startup San Diego, a nonprofit organization started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This doesn’t mean randomly attending every networking event you can find, but it does mean joining and actively participating in a couple of entrepreneur groups in your area, such as a local business incubator, Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), or The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Capitalize on your strengths, and forget weaknesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

Of course, she assumes that you are confident and courageous, and willing to capitalize on all your strengths and opportunities to market yourself. Every Chamber of Commerce, educational organization, and many business organizations are looking for people who are willing to share some special expertise, skills, or interests.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. My views are pretty well known.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. Today, there is still seed capital to be found, but you have to show the investors (especially very early stage investors) that you have a viable business.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Venture Summit —an annual gathering of local founders seeking financing and venture investors, primarily from outside San Diego, on the hunt for companies to back—was first organized by the San Diego Venture Group (SDVG) 17 years ago. The idea was to get more local startups an.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2019

Now, new hoaxes are making it increasingly difficult to avoid fraud, such as the “one ring” ploy (they hang up quickly to entice you to call back) or a riff on a years-old ruse of pretending to be the Internal Revenue Service, in which fraudsters “ spoof ” an actual phone number of an independent organization within the IRS, getting the.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

But I would posit that in order to sustainably build great products in an intensely competitive industry with skills shortages – people management is one of the most critical soft skills organizations need. Anybody who follows this blog knows that my mom was the most influential person on my entrepreneurial career.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

Now, the industry has entered a crucial phase where blockchain developers need to overcome the limitations of the technology and find use cases that will win widespread adoption by businesses and organizations.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

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. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. And it was really kinda. Crowdsourced Advisors.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You look at a dog, and see his eyes, and think he’s cute,” says Tama Lundquist, co-president of Houston PetSet, an organization that works with about 70 animal shelters in the Houston area. Too many people treat pet adoption like a one-night stand. But if you’re a couch potato and he likes to run, that’s not going to work out.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

It’s easy to assume in a small organization that everybody read our employee handbook and generally knows right from wrong but of course companies big and small should never take this for granted. In the afternoon we had a partner session with a separate facilitator in which we talked more broadly about bias, diversity & inclusion.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. The very smart Chris Fralic of First Round Capital is on the board and the angel list is a who’s who of early stage investments. Solve Media is that.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

After being what I assume is the subject of one or more of Seth David’s emotionally charged blog posts, I’ve decided it’s time to respond. This blog post is for information purposes only and my only intention is to move forward. .” We even considered raising capital. Mission accomplished.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). The industry is dying, except for the top 2%.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Silvergate didn’t provide much detail on how it planned to use the proceeds, saying simply that the money would go to fund “organic growth and for general corporate. The bank has applied for a New York Stock Exchange listing under the stock symbol “SI.” Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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