Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

If 10 percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. The wealth of data available online is already much larger than the entire Library of Congress, and much more current.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from Angel and venture capital investors. The wealth of data available online is already much larger than the entire Library of Congress, and much more current.

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Marketing Startup Statistics Research 59

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. I read it just after I entered the Venture Capital industry more than a decade ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

From my perspective, projecting financial returns is part of the homework every business person needs to do in sizing customer opportunity, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value, before expending their own resources in a highly risky venture. Project unit-volume and price levels. Quantify overhead and growth costs.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. As you know, Silicon Valley has a locker grip on the venture capital community. I think our board is agreement for the need for more venture capital. We have a way to go. None of this is easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Home prices are slowly coming back, and consumer spending reached a new high of almost $11 billion in May 2013. Venture capital investments are returning to startups. Venture capital firms raised $4.1 Venture capital firms raised $4.1 Startups are springing up all over to capitalize on these opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. A micro venture capital firm. A “genesis” venture capital round. These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. Short answer – yes. overvalued) and sell when the fall precipitously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Based on some good estimates of how many new ventures have been started in the last five years, the statistical odds of any individual startup making it to this level are less than one in a million. When top tier investors compete for a piece of the action, the price can go up exponentially. Active interest by a multitude of investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

That’s an amazing statistic and reminded me of my family’s journey. But I figured the worst that could happen was they’d send me home and I’d have to eat the price of my airfare and?—?hey?—?at After just 4 years I become managing partner of what is now the largest venture capital fund in Los Angeles. Ok, maybe I was.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. Because public shareholders usually take the short-term view, they want to see constant rises in the stock''s price so they can sell their shares for a profit. The M&A alternative looks simple by comparison. Constant pressure to increase earnings.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics. He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. Chip Kelly believes in the statistics of players: ages, sizes, speeds – and everybody is clear what the “Chip Kelly system” was. We all want larger amounts of capital to hire more senior people and to build bigger teams.

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