Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Ken Button: I am a corporate attorney, and started in private practice at O'Melvany and Myers, and later served as General Counsel for a software business. We have been around software for a long time. We've gotten great reviews from our user surveys. So how far along are you in terms of rolling this out?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Conscious Capitalism , a recent business movement which includes a large focus on culture and ethics, claims 3.2 For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice. Unethical behavior in business is just due to a few ‘bad apples.’ times the return of other companies over the last 10 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

Conscious Capitalism , a recent business movement which includes a large focus on culture and ethics, claims 3.2 For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice. Unethical behavior in business is just due to a few ‘bad apples.’ times the return of other companies over the last 10 years.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. For those not familiar with Saban Capital, tell us about the fund?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Conscious Capitalism , a new business movement which includes a large focus on culture and ethics, claims 3.2 For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice. Unethical behavior in business is just due to a few ‘bad apples.’ times the return of other companies over the last 10 years.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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JULY 31, 2013

By way of example, our access point looks like a Wi-Fi router, but it has a coverage zone of 200 miles, depending on the obstructions that are in the way. We also operate the network software than runs and manages the entire network layer, from access point to end point. Kevin Hell: Hardware companies do require more capital.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Plus, just last week we closed our first round of funding, worth $2M, including Peter Lee from Baroda Ventures, Paul Martino at Bullpen Capital--he was the founder of Aggregate Knowledge and Tribe, and also seeded Zynga--and Prism Ventureworks. Another guy who is helping is Richard Yen, who is at Saban Capital, and has joined as an advisor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. It’s funny how scarcity of capital can focus one’s mind. So if you’re able to raise easily no problem. End of story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

I’m sure you can all think of several examples of businesses that popped up quickly, with great business models, but then faded just as quickly. Examples would include Pets.com, Webvan, and Blockbuster. For example, adding new but similar cosmetics is better than adding hair care or dermatology products.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2018

com) recently , announced a new healthcare focused venture capital fund, worth $25M. The Affordable Care Act is part of that, but there are also many examples of healthcare systems recognizing that in order to afford our healthcare system, we have to change the way the economics work. Jay Goss: Great question.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com), which develops web application firewall software, just inked a big, $35M series C funding round a few weeks ago, and now has plans to dramatically expand its hiring in Los Angeles. The easiest example is for an online banking system. Tell us a little bit about this round?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale. Not necessarily.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

The formation of SeedInvest was deeply rooted in Ryan’s background in venture capital and investment. With such notable pedigrees in the investment world, I had to wonder why Ryan and co-founder James didn’t “simply” raise money and create their own private equity/venture capital fund? 116,105,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Apply for contests and business grants. Barter your services for their services.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. was starting.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

Perhaps it’s time to raise a round of Venture Capital funding and want a pitch presentation a bit more composed than the dusty Keynote you put together last year for your friends and family round. For example, difficult solutions that speed and flexibility are also a priority. Due Diligence. Investor Decks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. With our software, our clients just inherited the ability to use Ceph, and there was nothing they had to do to get that.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Growth hackers are the marketing equivalent of clever software hackers and are highly respected by investors. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Sweat equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2023

Thus, I was happy to see my perspective solidified and detailed with real examples in a timely book, “ Mission Possible: How to Build a Business for our Times ,” by Alexandre Mars. When you do find potential investors, be sure to take the time to do reverse due diligence on them, as they are doing due diligence on you and your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Or as I picked up from Bruce Dunlevie at Benchmark Capital (who I’m told took the quote from elsewhere). An external consultant helping the procurement team overturned the decision and got the company to select a small software company owned by the consultancy. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. This example is only the first of six approaches for coopetition, with potential wins for both sides: Best of both creates a new market. Your competitor has strengths, and you have different strengths.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea. If your team has a depth of expertise in software, that won’t help you get funding for a new hardware solution. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor. Focus on prior results, not titles.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

It’s almost been a work week since Techzulu and Gadget Review’s REACH | The Connected Future and we’re still reeling with excitement. “Sustainability is about developing an investment focus around social economic benefits that occur from capital solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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