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AUGUST 30, 2014
Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. For example: 1. On market segmentation I often recite my “ Elephants, Deer & Rabbits ” framework. Each is a framework for thinking about a problem. I’m all for more opinions, not less.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2019
This is often true when the action of the board could dramatically affect shareholders such as raising new capital, acquiring new businesses (that drain existing cash or dilute shareholders), selling the company or raising a lot of debt.
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DECEMBER 3, 2009
This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. The reality is that their core business is not venture capital. The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up.
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JUNE 9, 2013
Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. But what else?
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MARCH 6, 2015
At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Having a great early investor provides downstream capital with a “signal” that you are a company worthy of being paid attention to even if you haven’t scaled your metrics.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2011
I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.
socalTECH
MAY 17, 2019
Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. We're in the space, and leading the thought process on what needs to be combined, for example, CRM with ITSM tools, to create meaningful results that you can act on at the C-level. What is Perspectium? How did you get into this?
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