Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

Your ability to keep up is dependent on having a great team of differing skills. Of course not. We know that if you start with ho-hum founders you’re less likely to assemble a world-class team. It means a welter weight who wants to fight in the heavy-weight category. This post originally ran on TechCrunch. It’s a mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. start-ups are overvalued.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. start-ups are overvalued.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

As an entrepreneur looking for professional investors, one of the quickest ways to lose credibility and get rejected is to start with a ridiculously high pre-money valuation. According to the Angel Capital Association (ACA) blog, the average startup valuation for new ventures receiving angel investments has been around $2.7

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies. You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. By having 5 or 6 blog posts with different points of view they could draw more inferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. Karat, a startup building a bank for creators. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Of course unsolicited spam has very low open rates and is filtered by the major providers. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I do what I wish all entrepreneurs would do. I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. The same kind of tasks that a startup team has. I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. We are experiencing a frenetic time. For investors life is no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

She started watching dogs in her spare time through DogVacay and was able make ends meet during a tough period. I typed in my brothers zip code and ton of houses popped up in his area and I was able to search out on a map view. We got along and shared stories about the startup market. I registered. and upload that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

I’ve noticed a great tendency among startup founders to ignore the essentials of business accounting in the early stages of their startup. Sloppy documentation and reporting of these expenses is an open invitation to an IRS audit, which is the last thing you need or can afford during the busy startup period. Corporate records.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I know some people think the whole market has been disrupted and startups and funding work differently these days. Easier to start companies, yes. How’d that work out? the diversity problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. According to a recent article in Entrepreneur , 94% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use social media as a marketing tool, and 81% use it to drive growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. Get some seasoned entrepreneurs to come. I’m not.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? Andrea: At May Company, they sold me on the buying career path by saying it was like owning your own business without having to raise start-up capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. As Alex points out in this blog post there’s a ton of options out there in a severely fragmented industry. ENTER THE #HASHTAG. .

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Once the Ball Starts Bouncing, You Never Know Where It Will Stop. Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. If you just ask yourself, “then why bother?” – read on friend, read on. From Small to Tall.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is? I could go on for a long time.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I just had to line up behind him. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. I know this guy is a money maker.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 I will start recruiting soon.

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