socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2018

According to the Dodgers, E|L1 was founded by former Seattle Mariners Prospect, Aaron Trolia, and will focus on youth sports, and providing professional instruction and resources for existing youth teams, athletes and their coaches. The venture is supported by the Los Angeles Dodgers, Nomar Garciaparra and Elysian Park Ventures.

Los Angeles 113

Los Angeles Redondo Beach Angel Coach 113

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Have you set the right price for your entree, and correctly included all costs? Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements?

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

Entrepreneur 149

Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 149

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Have you set the right price for your entree, and correctly included all costs? Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements?

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. What price? The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What stage? ” Fair play.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. If we got an offer to raise $25 million to grow would she take it or be too worried about exit price, dilution, valuation expectations, etc. I don’t believe in paying the highest price to win deals.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Recruiting, compensating, and engaging the board is a critical priority.

Sales 147

Sales Metrics Guide Startup 147

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

I’ve written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing. Convertible debt is an investment that “converts&# into equity in the future usually at a discount to your next funding round price and sometimes has a “cap&# (maximum price).

Equity 319

Equity Pricing Venture Capital Entrepreneur 319

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. What price? The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. ” Therefore one goal of Y Combinator appears to be “get the highest price and best terms.” What stage? ” Fair play.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

Startup 97

Startup Writing Coach Incubator 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Have you set the right price for your entrée, and correctly included all costs? Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements?

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Recruiting, compensating, and engaging the board is a critical priority.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Have you set the right price for your entrée, and correctly included all costs? Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements?

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

How did you determine the right price points for your product? Like many companies they experimented with many pricing models. They tried lots of price points – $13.99, $9.99 When they increased price from $9.99 My key take away – frame of reference in pricing is important. Advice, coaching, intros?

Startup 303

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Writing 303

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

Based on my own experience in business over the years, and current coaching efforts, I recommend a focus on the following strategies and attributes: Make your customer the center of everything you do. They and their brand have a long road to becoming a key influencer in their arena.

Customer 93

Customer Custom IBM IBM 93

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

Writing 111

Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

One of the attributes identified by all of the venture capitalists questioned was, “Frugal use of capital.” If there happens to be a gas station along the way where you can fill up for a reasonable price, great. Capital efficient, web-based businesses should have a credible plan to self-sustainability.

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). And Coach Campbell. The second is not.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Jason Nazar

JUNE 2, 2016

Negotiate Everything – When my father goes to Rite Aid , he’ll try and negotiate the price of his prescription drugs, and sometimes he gets a discount. Never accept the first offer or price. Don’t risk your capital where the upside potential isn’t proportional to the downside risk. Whatever needs to get done, we do.

Tips 40

Tips Coach Resource Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Recruiting, compensating, and engaging the board is a critical priority.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Recruiting, compensating, and engaging the board is a critical priority.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

We envy them all and want to emulate them but know that they are just people dealing with struggles of a different magnitude from the pressures of going public, the pressures of pricing competition, the pressures of over-reaching of journalists and regulators and the pressures of activist public shareholders with short-term expectations.

Press 150

Press Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s why I believe executive coaches are so important for startups who have the financial resources to afford them. One founder who gets more attention from a company’s success while one feels slighted and becomes jealous and resentful.

Startup 340

Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I like the ten steps he defines, which I can summarize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Recruiting, compensating, and engaging the board is a critical priority.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Ultimately, once those issues are validated, it's how to go about building the product, recruiting talent, and enough capital to make it into a business. Tags: richard koffler john morris interview startup entrepreneur venture capital spinout tech transfer technology university college education research. Thanks, and good luck!

Networking 215

Networking Research Startup USC 215

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

Every interaction every day is a training event, and you can capitalize on it or not. Training is coaching, rather than criticizing, to improve the outcome next time. Customers want to buy into a winner, so make sure your people never apologize for price or quality, and never back away from an opportunity to delight a customer.

Startup 101

Startup Training Study Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

Every interaction every day is a training event, and you can capitalize on it or not. Training is coaching, rather than criticizing, to improve the outcome next time. Customers want to buy into a winner, so make sure your people never apologize for price or quality, and never back away from an opportunity to delight a customer.

Training 109

Training Startup Study Customer 109

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. He was stuck on capital raising. This was such a guy.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. This is something I try to coach against. Team Building.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

But Spurs coach, Gregg Popovich used his many years of experience to deliberate a plan that was well executed and surprised even the experts in the game, leading the underdog team to a Game 7 against the defending champions. There will be similar startups doing exactly the same thing and some may have more capital at hand.

Startup 94

Startup CTO Coach Coach Study 94

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

An excess of capital is often driven by venture capitalists (VCs) who tend to stuff as much money as possible into deals they like. Sophisticated entrepreneurs understand that the ideal source of capital is from customers’ wallets, not VCs’ bank accounts. John Wooden, US basketball coach. Measure Thrice, Cut Once.

Company 257

Company Companies Startup Study 257

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. So winning means they’re paying the highest price. So why would raising venture capital be any different.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366