Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million. Not as many entrepreneurs are aspiring to do it any more. o ShopKick.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

I second the message that chaos never subsides, from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos.” Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 95

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. This post was prompted by an email exchange I had with a young entrepreneur. I was interested in learning more.

Startup 360

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). 15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. So we had to raise capital to meet orders. Do you think the sales focus has been valuable to you as an entrepreneur? There are typically two types of microscopes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. Let’s start with the money slide: 10 years ago there was about the same money pouring into VC as found its way into startups but in the past two years 2.5

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. So we had to raise capital to meet orders. Do you think the sales focus has been valuable to you as an entrepreneur? There are typically two types of microscopes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

I “second the message” that chaos never subsides, from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos.” Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Short answer: no.

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The Quigley Report

MARCH 4, 2008

So to some extent, entrepreneurs and VCs can comfortably ignore the chaos of currency fluctuations, interest rate changes and other macro finanicial shifts. These firms most definitely do look at public stock market valuations as a measure of how to price a private company. The operative phase here is 'to some extent'. And guess what?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Many firms do it in a way that can be more detrimental to entrepreneurs. VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. How this works: I try to set a price that feels like a fair balance between GRP and the company.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

I mean, that''s what entrepreneurs do every day. But that''s what entrepreneurs do everyday. I was horrified, because I had all these people sending me money -- so I doubled the price, because I didn''t know what else to do. In three weeks, I have a 300-order backlog, so I doubled the price again.". Why not just wing it?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. Have minimums but a sliding scale. This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice. What are Performance Based Warrants?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2009

It’s mostly done by first-time entrepreneurs who want to persuade (bribe?) If your valuation is already too high then seek approval to let them invest at a price lower than the current value. It’s OK to have the advisor slide where you glance quickly over the names. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It will affect your ability to get the right jobs and promotions as well as your ability to attract talent and capital. Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. When I started my second company I was a serial entrepreneur. I introduced myself as a serial entrepreneur. ” Not technical.

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2010

I second the message from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos ” that chaos never subsides. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 57

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 57

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. It’s the nature of most entrepreneurs, honestly. They can help you with pricing. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up? And board confidence matters in growing companies.

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Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. His best advice: take capital where you can get it. These are usually the first sources entrepreneurs tap. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. Be careful how you price this.

Startup 40

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

One would imagine with so much influence and potential capital flying in the packed room, the atmosphere must have felt thicker than a frenzied shark tank. After the event, we caught up, Parker Thompson , Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) charged with leading Batch 8. Honestly though, it was anything but. Look out for this company.

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Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). This should not deter you. This doesn’t make sense. This doesn’t make sense.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)

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