Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while Apple and others are delivering high-tech new versions that sync with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Examples: After successful sales of their prior companies to Google, Ryan and Chad Steelberg are back with BAT, while Gil Elbaz is making big news with Factual. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while Apple and others are delivering high-tech new versions that sync with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

You have to raise capital. There are obviously some great advantages to raising capital, not least of all the ability to accelerate your product/service to market and to execute on a greater scale. But there are also a lot of downsides to raising investment capital, top on the list: dilution. This one just rubs me the wrong way.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. During its 2014 fiscal year, UGGS sales are estimated to have exceeded $500 million, while Deckers’ overall revenue was in excess of $1.5 In 1995, Deckers purchased the UGGS brand for $16 million. What's SUP? –

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

Gregg also spoke to us about how the move of Active Network out of San Diego-a huge dislocation for the local high tech communityactually benefited Events.com, by allowed it to quickly ramp up its employee base and offerings, particularly since one Event.com''s Chairman was a co-founder of Active. The world today is not about that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while Apple and others are delivering high-tech new versions that sync with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. .

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers. Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. So how does this fit into the mobile world and B2B?

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. We're also self funded, and absolutely have no need for venture capital.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The startup, led by co-founder and CEO Gabriel Halimi , is backed by Crosslink Capital, Anthemis Group, an affiliate of USAA, and such angels as Jamie Siminoff (of Ring fame) and Jason Nazar (who founded Docstoc). We also have launched directly to customers, and this became available for sale on our website back in January.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while Apple and others are delivering high-tech new versions that sync with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while a crowd-sourced new company is offering a high-tech new version that syncs with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I In case you are wondering, I do not weigh in on such monumental choices, as I do not believe a Professor's opinion is relevant. "I had to give it a full go and see what happened. Look around.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. The way sales are handled is as old as the 1930's securities laws.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. The housing market is not recovered : Sales in existing homes in the US fell 27.2% What does this mean if you’re an investor?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

“Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues” . Even if your company is not acquired and you elect to access the public capital markets via an IPO, the above tenets remain valid.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

For instance, when a venture capital partner votes for a follow-on investment in exchange for the future support of one of her investments, idea cronyism is at work. Evaluating ideas via such a matrix force discipline on business development deal junkies, commission-driven sales leaders and engineers engaged in product feature creep.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion in December 2014, it counted on blockbuster sales of Cubist’s skin-infection antibiotic daptomycin (Cubicin) for years. million in seed funding from RA Capital Management and others to help sell a liquid formula for infants to help prevent the onset of peanut allergies. But the U.S.

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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. I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. You’re a tech guy. I had had enough.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

After recent announcements by Google and Apple, the mobile advertising ecosystem is abuzz with optimism and flush with venture capital. Moderator: Vince Thompson, Managing Partner, Middleshift LLC Speakers: Carrie Coffee, Mobile Sales Specialist, Mobile Advertising, Microsoft Evan Neufeld, VP Marketing, GROUNDTRUTH.

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