Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. It’s awesome.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. acquisition merger exits interview capital venture banking investment siemer david' That''s paramount to a great exit.

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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. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. Coworking and incubator spaces are great sources as are lawyers and bankers. Vendor funding.

Startup 40

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Those companies have raised more than $2 billion in follow on capital, and have a valuation of over $6.5 Sometimes entrepreneurs ask if we need certain metrics and traction�you don't. Collectively, across all those programs, we've invested in a bit over 900 startups around the world. billion combined.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. That is how great businesses are built. We did the planning work up front.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

We all have strengths and special interests, and it always pays to capitalize on these, rather than assume all opportunities are the same. That’s why I also put major emphasis on startup traction, milestones achieved and metrics rather than listening again to how great it’s going to be.

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