InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

You control substantial amounts of capital, have tremendous autonomy, a flexible work schedule and you get to play Santa by bestowing financial gifts upon worthy entrepreneurs. In contrast, an Angel Investor is someone who invests their own capital. Just as unproven startups struggle to raise capital, so do newly minted venture firms.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. You should follow him on Twitter ( @jasonlbaptiste ) or say hi via email.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. Hell, I often can’t even get to email during the day.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

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. Venture capital firms have a distaste for the smaller multiples earned by services businesses, along with the challenge to scale such a business. It was over. Of course).

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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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

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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. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 18, 2013

This approach allows such investors to rapidly deploy and diversity their capital. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. If the pitch sounds good, they are "in." Share and Enjoy.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

For instance, if you anticipate that your venture will require $10 million of investor capital over its life, an exit below $50 million is unlikely to be acceptable target to most VCs. However, a smaller, capital-efficient venture firm might find such an answer entirely acceptable. Avoid stating a specific exit value. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 3, 2012

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.". • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2013

In some instances, a well-meaning champion does not have the social and political capital to close the sale. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2013

Even with the upcoming Obama tax hikes, (relatively) favorable tax treatment of capital gains will allow you to retain a greater portion of the wealth you have helped to create. Bringing capital to the adVenture effectively offsets the incremental cost of adding you to the team. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 29, 2012

For instance, if you anticipate that your venture will require $10 million of investor capital over its life, an exit below $50 million is unlikely to be acceptable target to most VCs. However, a smaller, capital-efficient venture firm might find such an answer entirely acceptable. Avoid stating a specific exit value. Share and Enjoy.

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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. Note that the word "SpammerRobot"can be in any mixture of capital (uppercase) or small (lowercase) letters. Simply point your RSS feed reader or a browser that supports RSS feeds at [link].You

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Block email. Block email. Block email. Block email.

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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]. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

The steps outlined below represent an ideal approach to raising capital from sophisticated investors. Step 4: Reconnaissance Mission, Under Promise – An effective technique for acquiring investment capital is to initially not ask for money. Unfortunately, your fundraising efforts will be less linear. Stay Limber. Share and Enjoy.

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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. I don't want to see any more of you with crappy business guys ruining your great ideas, ok?

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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.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Jeff Carmody, Co-Founder of Agility Capital and a successful institutional investor, provided me with the outline shown below. Capitalization. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Real World Executive Summary Template.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 18, 2012

Numerous innovators capitalized upon them as well, creating dozens of multi-billion-dollar enterprises. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Inventor And Innovator Characteristics. TV photo by gbaku. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 6, 2012

Incremental energy is derived from the system’s environment, defined in business terms as: financial capital, talented employees, partnerships, market clout, etc. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

.” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Feel free to directly email us at tips@techcrunch.com. Have a Tip, Pitch or Guest Column? Guest Column.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. Most Emailed Feed.

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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.

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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?

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