socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm founded by Frank Addante, is on track to do $100M in revenues this year and will reach profitability in Q4, according to a blog post by Addante Tuesday afternoon.

Clearstone 232

Clearstone Santa Monica Advertising Blogging 232

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

Equity 139

Equity Social Media Startup Summary 139

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. But I miss blogging. A brand is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Venture Capital Startup Blogging Platform 324

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Who cares what my equity is. It’s why whenever he does ask my answer is “yes” before even knowing what he’s asking. ” Be authentic.

Venture Capital 407

Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2011

According to the list, put together by Larry Cheng and based on Compete traffic numbers, Suster was ranked number 3, with 53,655 monthly unique visitors to his blog, Both Sides of the Table. The venture capital blog ranking was the fourth annual ranking of 149 venture capital, microVC/seed, and growth equity blogs.

Venture Capital 145

Venture Capital GRP Partners Southern California Blogging 145

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

But not anal if one founder who shares equity graciously with early employees who are treated as “co-founders” My idea startup team is heaving on tech personnel but also has strong product management. I don’t think VCs care as much about co-founders & economics as people think. What you agree / disagree with.

Startup 388

Startup Slides Outsource Development Sales 388

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. To be clear – it is not about being stingy with or hoarding equity – it is about having a prenuptial agreement. I believe that it very important to spread the equity. Consensus does not always build. . To the contrary.

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Startup Equity Venture Capital Entrepreneur 251

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2011

Give them a large sum of equity. It is not uncommon to see startup founders walk before raising capital and take large pieces of equity with no vesting. People just don’t talk about it publicly or in blogs. Hire your co-founder. Vested over 4 years. If you ever fall out of love you have a pre-nuptial agreement.

Startup 393

Startup Equity Funding Summary 393

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. when is the right time to hire your first sales employee? junior vs. senior? brains vs. relationship? How much to compensate them?

Software Review 300

Software Review Sales Tips Help 300

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Technical Review 338

Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. startup control equity bootstrapping Rich Christiansen business'

Equity 96

Equity Startup Summary Tips 96

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Anybody who follows this blog knows that my mom was the most influential person on my entrepreneurial career. Equity for the future? If you are the person staying how resentful will you become working your arse off for equity that your co-founder who leaves will get value from.

Startup 340

Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. He’s fine with equity provided it’s cheap to paper it legally. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

We spent our future since the equity was artificial. To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) Consumer spending is where I’m dubious. See point 2 below.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The companies said that debt and equity for the acquisition came from Third Point LLC, and that Reed Elsevier was advised by Evercore Partners. Variety has been covering entertainment and Hollywood news since 1905.

Media 150

Media News Entertainment Hollywood 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. . - Can you please explain convertible debt and specifically how it pertains to angel deals?

Venture Capital 210

Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Southern California 210

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should.

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

Xconomy

MAY 2, 2019

Blueprint Equity managing partners Sheldon Lewis and Bobby Ocampo, 30-somethings who are part of a new generation of investors in San Diego, said Thursday that the firm had invested $6 million in Sunwave, a Florida-based company that makes software for substance abuse treatment centers.

Equity 93

Equity Venture Capital Software San Diego 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

And ff Venture Capital cleverly has created a blog where their portofolio companies contribute. It seems obvious enough – have a centralized place for ideas which can drive more viewership than only blogging on each startups own website. Put offer proper accounting at your peril. What’s your take on that?

Cornerstone OnDemand 303

Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

Internet Brands 190

Internet Brands Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 190

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. That in itself is quite a challenge.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

This is something I’ve explored several times already in my blog: Startup Founder Developer Gap Startup CTO or Developer Technical Advisors – Why Every Startup Needs Them Bottom line - for most startups, what they really need is a technical advisor or part-time CTO along with some development resources.

Develop 280

Develop Development CTO Coach CTO Hire 280

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

Social Media 169

Social Media Startup Equity Summary 169

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Now, more and more, we''re extending our use cases into not just websites and blogs, but also to lots of web application use cases.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. The upside for entrepreneurs is the equity in their business. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me. I’m enjoying the chaotic creativity that comes with blogging. That’s true.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

Homework I don't think that this founder has looked at my blog or my background. If they had read either of the above articles or the 10 other on my blog, then they would have sent me something else. The way they expressed it "technical co-founder" is code for find someone who will work as an Equity Only Developer.

Email 150

Email Startup Develop Development 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Trilegiant Corporation , (who is owned by Avis Budget Group (yes, that Avis & Budget), in turn owned by the private equity group Apollo Management ) does business as PrivacyGuard and has engaged in the most unethical of business practices I have come across in years. But I’m also sending this to a couple of class-action lawyers.

Marketing 263

Marketing Startup Education Class 263

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. ” Money is not debt or equity but a “license to use their capital.” I wrote about that before in a post about “ whether MBAs are necessary for entrepreneurs.

Venture Capital 403

Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I would gladly part with equity (actually, I have) to work with people like her on deals. When I wrote about Lines, Not Dots (probably my most often quote blog post) I made it clear that “lines” go both ways. And she doesn’t always charge what she should.

Startup 363

Startup Venture Capital Coach Press 363

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

After raising $23 million in a Series D funding round last September , Kyriba says today it has raised $45 million in a growth equity round led by Sumeru Equity Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm that specializes in mid-market deals.

Equity 66

Equity San Diego Capital Funding 66

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

Private equity investors have more capital at their disposal than at any time in more than a decade, which could boost prices for companies seeking acquisitions. 1, private equity firms in North America and Europe had secured $212.6 As of Aug.

Equity 69

Equity Pricing Acquisition Report 69

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. Kanye West. Let's recap.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. Boards are not appointed to be founder-friendly lapdogs for the 1–3 founders who start companies and usually own the largest equity positions in the company.

Startup 217

Startup Technical Review Equity Report 217

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

Startup 151

Startup Equity Funding Demand 151