Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In the latest book by business guru Joe Wozny, “ The Digital Dollar: Sustainable Strategies for Online Success ,” I found a good summary of some great strategies, with some practical advice on how to implement them: Understand what’s in a name on the Internet. If four or more pivots occur (or none), then the chance of success goes down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? The partner you saw is probably sitting on 5-6 boards which means he or she will be busy helping existing portfolio companies. They have probably seen 4-5 new companies this week minimum.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

When I did it was a little too close to home for a company to have me publish it. A while back I received a frantic phone call from the CEO of a company in which I invested. The company had their holding statement. I had outlined a blog post in support of their efforts and was ready to publish it. Much time has passed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close. All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab). Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. Thank you, John. were doing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

You’ve been given 10 minutes to stand on stage and tell what your company does and why it matters. Give them the iPod not Microsoft Office products. I would then have as many pages of analysis as required to show the detailes of my review. If you can pick up a product and use it with no manual it is well designed.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The full report is here ; a summary is here.). The agency will now decide on approval by April 27 of next year… Dynavax Technologies (NASDAQ: DVAX ) of Berkeley, CA, said the FDA’s advisory committee scheduled to weigh in on the company’s hepatitis B vaccine decided to cancel the meeting.

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