Capital, Customer, Email and RSS - Southern California Tech Central

What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Five broad sources of independent, third-party validation are: Customers, Partners, Distributors, Industry Experts and other Stakeholders. For instance, validation that directly supports your company's underlying value proposition is more valuable than corroboration that indirectly suggests customers might ultimately adopt your solution.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital RSS Customer Custom

6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

The steps outlined below represent an ideal approach to raising capital from sophisticated investors. If this is the case, offer to make a meaningful introduction to a potential customer or partner of one of their portfolio companies. Major League baseball pitchers spend far more time preparing to pitch than they actually do pitching.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Capital Research Customer

Combustion Matters More Than Scale

InfoChachkie

JULY 15, 2013

Such fit exists when a profitable customer acquisition model can be repeatedly executed with consistent results and without the need of heroic efforts. Advertising - "We will monetize our customers via online ads.". Scaling normally occurs after a startup achieves product-market fit. Photo credit: Flickr born1945. Share and Enjoy.

RSS

RSS Journal Entrepreneur Resource

The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

InfoChachkie

MAY 6, 2013

The nasty and brutish deaths of the unfortunate turtles are disquieting , but the process ensures that the survivors are (on average) strong, healthy and able to capitalize on the ecosystem''s resources. There is a similar Darwinian aspect to venture capital investing.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Capital

Make It Work- the real story

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Our customers benefitted from this and saved thousands over the years as a result. The company was always seeking capital. As an entrepreneur, my greatest lesson learned here was how difficult it is to find capital for a services business. As a result, the company was always under-capitalized. I was wrong. It was over.

RSS

RSS Technical Review Capital Email

8 Fundraising Deal Breakers Inexperienced Entrepreneurs Routinely Create

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Some of the most common include: Junked-up Capital Table – A hodgepodge of small investors who may cause potential headaches for management and/or institutional investors. As such, remote members in key roles should be prepared to either routinely commute or relocate, once institutional capital is secured. Frictionless Fundraising.

Technical Review

Technical Review Entrepreneur IP RSS

Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Jeff Carmody, Co-Founder of Agility Capital and a successful institutional investor, provided me with the outline shown below. What does your pain reliever look like, how is it implemented by the customer and what future products do you expect to roll out? Capitalization. Real World Executive Summary Template. Management Team.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Summary Technical Review Template

Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. was starting.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review

Deal Hair: Is Your Startup More Like Russell Brand Or Bruce Willis?

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Venture Capital is a game of pattern matching. Bruce Willis deals command hefty valuations, as new injections of capital are typically applied to growing a self-sustaining business, rather than funding an ongoing burn rate. Before you seek investment capital, do what you can to remove the hair from your venture. Share and Enjoy.

Technical Review

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital RSS

Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You?

InfoChachkie

JUNE 18, 2012

Numerous innovators capitalized upon them as well, creating dozens of multi-billion-dollar enterprises. This leads them to design and create the best technology, without regard for the myriad of customer-centric, non-product-oriented issues that contribute to a product’s ultimate success or failure. TV photo by gbaku. Share and Enjoy.

Ideas

Ideas RSS Technical Review .Net

The Impact Matrix: Prioritize Your 2013 Initiatives Using This Startup Ninja Tool

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I now use the Impact Matrix as a venture capital investor to help our portfolio companies objectively evaluate which initiatives they should pursue in the near-term, which they should re-considered in the future and which should be dismissed entirely. Share and Enjoy.

Tool

Tool Startup Ideas Resource

From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

Newsletter

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing

The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. If your presentation requires an explanation of RSS vs. ATOM always best to say, “let me quickly state how RSS and ATOM are different.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Sales Slides Startup

7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend some of my precious capital to protect it. Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. Rely On A Public Relations Agency.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review

The Original Lean Startup MVP – Louie, Louie

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Lean startups validate their business model by quickly iterating and assessing potential customers' feedback. Lean startups must similarly leverage free promotion, as they seldom have adequate capital to outspend their competitors and cut through the ever-present market "noise.". Lean Music. Doomed Product Development. Share and Enjoy.

Startup

Startup RSS Marketing Sales

Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

Blogging

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital

Startup Sales Lessons From TLC’s “Say Yes To The Dress”

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2013

An efficient way to qualify a potential customer is to determine the size and availability of their budget. In some instances, a well-meaning champion does not have the social and political capital to close the sale. Startup sales require high velocity. You typically cannot afford to spend time with prospects that are not ready to buy.

Sales

Sales Startup Activity RSS

Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users? .&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

Social Network

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web

What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

Social Network

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup

Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. Get customer input.

Startup

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas

The Entrepreneur Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

I’d like to get involved with capital efficient companies early in their lifecycle. I believe in my bones that entrepreneurs shouldn’t “over raise” capital. They should right size their capital raises. Have you subscribed yet to my feed on Feedburner or do you want it delivered by email ? So what is my thesis?

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur GRP Partners Venture Capital Invest

How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Not all bots are benign however.Some bots go through your website looking for web forms and email addresses to send you spam. When you block by IP address, you may end up blocking an entire internet provider, and thus a lot of realusers and potential customers. You can read more about how to subscribe toRSS site feeds from my RSS FAQ.

IP

IP PHP Web RSS

Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. Most Emailed Feed. Email Newsletters and Alerts. WSJ.com Email Features.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Subscribe to RSS.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO

Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. 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]. Customer Service Workshop Fast Company joins the customer service revolution across the US.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel

Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Click to email him. While I know I can add value, I also know when and how I can add value. Lack of confidence? Camaraderie? Lack of confidence?

CTO Coach

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor

Southern California Tech Central

What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

Trending Sources

Combustion Matters More Than Scale

The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

Make It Work- the real story

8 Fundraising Deal Breakers Inexperienced Entrepreneurs Routinely Create

Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Deal Hair: Is Your Startup More Like Russell Brand Or Bruce Willis?

Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You?

The Impact Matrix: Prioritize Your 2013 Initiatives Using This Startup Ninja Tool

From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

The Original Lean Startup MVP – Louie, Louie

Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Startup Sales Lessons From TLC’s “Say Yes To The Dress”

Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

The Entrepreneur Thesis

How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

Stay Connected