Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. If you are interested the Vimeo is here.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

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Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

According to the Harvard Business Review , acquiring a new customer is anywhere from five to twenty-five times more expensive than retaining an existing one. Instant global communication now makes it easy to reach new markets without rethinking your entire product strategy. Expand your product line, staying close to the core.

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Examples Custom Customer Software Review 67

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2018

If you find yourself in this category, you need to focus on techniques to improve your productivity On software teams, for example, a detailed study published years ago shows differences as great as ten to one in productivity between comparable team members. Capitalize on deadlines to maintain a sense of urgency.

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Coach Paramount Software Review Product 56

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. He said, literally, I sh*t you not, “well, my report was due and I didn’t have much time. It’s important to quantify the value of your product or service.

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5

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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. As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Tactics which can increase your customers’ lifetime value are discussed in Pour and Stir – Part III.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. We had to be ver mindful to prove that, because, instead of a traditional raise of capital as quickly and fiercely as we could, we self funded this fro the first six- to nine-months.

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

He isn’t setting out to do it over night but with the ambition to make a difference in the world Ryan falls into the rare category of entrepreneur looking to tackle something truly monumental. He believes in working hard but has one of the best work/life priorities of any entrepreneur I’ve met. And he makes it work.

Invest 295

Invest Carson Technical Review Education 295

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's in the automated translation category of the industry. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. NativeTung is a cloud-based platform, which includes some software which runs on the web site, which ensures synchronization of the translation at all times.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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