Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Think of web vs. mobile. I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

What about a top athlete in the NFL or NBA or even part of the coaching staff. They push the boundaries on eReaders on video streaming on web hosting on logistics and a variety of other fronts. Should we do an article on what it’s like to be a medical resident? How about working in the US military? ” No.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

He also has product strategy and business development experience in the areas of video-on-demand services and RF CMOS components. in venture capital and publicly launched in May 2011. He also helped accelerate growth at Eventbrite, Socialcast, Webs, World Golf Tour, WordPress.com and Songkick in hands-on marketing advisory roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

The business accelerator model is YCombinator and TechStars , who select only the best applicants, have a demanding process, provide experienced coaching/mentoring, some seed funding, with a required exit in about six months. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup. Pundits call this the “spray and pray” approach to funding.

Entrepreneur 101

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

The business accelerator model is YCombinator and TechStars , who select only the best applicants, have a demanding process, provide experienced coaching/mentoring, some seed funding, with a required exit in about six months. Incremental investment may follow. Lean startup. Pundits call this the “spray and pray” approach to funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

There's a gigantic need for the demand side of the marketplace. There's a giant need in the supply side to be able to go out to a web site, put your corporate profile down, and have a very efficient system for matching both the demand and supply side, matching the intern and the job at a local and geographic level.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. And what happened in L.A. is--were not Sand Hill Road, right? Nowhere in the world is Sand Hill Road. Let me point out what I believe that means.

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