Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Working on it. And being ambitious.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 6, 2023
Be customer focused, not technology focused. New ventures with major innovations, called “ disruptive ” solutions, such as the advent of electric vehicles, require changes in support technologies, more marketing for customer education, and new government policies. Elon Musk mitigated this by making his battery patents free to all.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.
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. There’s a lot of mystique about what happens at board meetings and a lot of imagined board-room drama.
Xconomy
AUGUST 19, 2016
All those years of hard work to reach the promised land, then just as a drug owner is ready to spike it home and take a victory lap, the FDA’s hands rise over the net… OK, it’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s better than comparing the patent fight over the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to table tennis. (Be
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology.
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