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MARCH 21, 2013

deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. You don’t want to run the risk that having a PS business that takes your eye of off the ball of growing a large software business. That is the software business. rollout support.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Every company has tons of contracts and legal documents, probably more than they want to acknowledge, ranging from customer agreements, to vendor agreements, employee documents, investor documents, corporate governance documents, leases, insurance, and on and on. Typically, these documents are a mess.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Eric is also author of the book The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, And the Rest of Planet Earth , where he documented that experience. My cofounder and I know how hard it is to get a company up and running, and funded, to keep your investors in the loop. Eric, what's the story behind CapLinked?

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead of equity, the company is aimed at profiting profitable small businesses with business debt funding from investors, to help those businesses grow and get to the next level. But, those are the companies who are desperate for growth capital, don''t have other options, and where we could have a massive impact.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). Thus is venture capital. Thus begins the venture capital dance.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). That died with waterfall software development. portfolios.

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JULY 8, 2011

HowSimple just launched into beta a next generation browser and desktop manager named andi (Advanced Numerous Document Interface). Critique^It is peer-review without barriers—feedback without managing emails, commentary and document versions. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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