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InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Venture Capital is a game of pattern matching. Given the thousands of startups Venture Capitalists review annually, they must adopt efficient methods of quickly assessing if a person/opportunity is worth further diligence. Other patterns VCs look for include: Technical Guru with great ideas, but no management experience.
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Too Techie - Tone down emphasis on the technology underlying your venture; an interested investor will perform tech diligence at the appropriate time. Jeff Carmody, Co-Founder of Agility Capital and a successful institutional investor, provided me with the outline shown below. Capitalization. Management Team.
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InfoChachkie
MARCH 18, 2013
Ideally, such early-stage investors should have the experiences and motivation to help their ventures establish a sustainable business model, rather than simply writing a check before moving on to their next investment. In such instances, take their money and work diligently to convert them into a disengaged investor. Share and Enjoy.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting.
InfoChachkie
JULY 9, 2013
This agreement generated tens of thousands of dollars of value due to an advantageous chargeback clause. At Computer Motion (NASDAQ: RBOT, acquired by Intuitive Surgical), I helped negotiate the company’s new phone system, which saved over $35,000, before I was an employee. Be patient.
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. There are many paths into the VC world, but they can generally be lumped into two categories: (i) serial entrepreneurship, and (ii) tech-oriented investment banking.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 24, 2015
I recently interviewed Matt Mazzeo of Lowercase Capital. In many ways I wanted to focus on Matt because to those of us in the LA Venture community Matt really has become the public face of Lowercase Capital over the past several years. As always, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, Soundcloud and podcast RSS feed.
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