Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I’m writing this post to make sure you’re all on that same playing field. In data analysis you want to look for “primary&# research, which means the person who initially gathered the data. The bankers and consultants weren’t paid to do too much primary research. So, where is this all coming from, Mark?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

This has led VC & entrepreneur bloggers alike to similar conclusions: start raising capital early and be careful about having too high of a burn rate because that lessens the amount of runway you have until you need more cash. But the hardest question to actually answer is, “What is the right burn rate for your company?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. Their writing style, even for a mainstream publication, is they write with lots of testosterone. They write about the transmission, the brakes, and the suspension, and that creeps into all of their evaluations of cars.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. In order to have a secure, decentralized means of transferring money between individuals you need a way of providing services that a modern centralized financial system would offer. Enter blockchain.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Peter Marx: The Mayor''s office has oversight, along with the city council, for thirty seven different departments, ranging across all kinds of different services. For example, if you look at transportation and the new ride sharing service, there''s a continuous interaction with traffic management, intersections, parking spaces.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 16, 2014

Addition of new services or product lines. Access to capital unavailable to either partner singly. Research and talk to existing and past customers. All agreements should be in writing and signed by all parties involved. Most of the important benefits for partnering include: Combining of complimentary skill sets.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. Al Eisaian: We spent all of 2009 doing research with moms, having moms come into our Pasadena office and researching what things they wanted in the app.

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Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. Just don’t believe what they write about you. We closed a $16.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I had expect a Q&A style session and as I asked the first question – BOOM – he went straight to screen sharing using his term sheet write-ups on VentureHacks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

I write about sales often both because it’s the lifeblood of any organization and because in my experience it is the area in which more startups are least experienced or inclined. I also write and talk about it frequently because raising capital is a part of sales and this is important for entrepreneurs to understand.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework. Take bike share. Notable reads.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. PHONE CALLS.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - By company 22 it’s hard to remember what any of them did. Many other great companies are not. -

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. But not doing basic research makes no sense. Market Size. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make? And how much do others providers make?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. It is an LA-based company that was recently acquired by Amazon, which you can read more about in this incredibly well-researched article.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

Formerly an area considered PayPal ‘s domain, new companies are setting up shop in the online payments sector and capitalizing on what they say is the giant’s weaknesses. Army’s Communications Engineering Research Command and in electronic trading at Goldman Sachs.Rich Aberman, COO. What is WePay and why the name?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

That's what happened to Brandon Hance , founder of GoodThreads (www.goodthreads.com), a new service which makes it easy for participants in charity walks and events to create personalized T-shirts, supporting the nonprofits running those events. I said--wow, that's a pretty big missed opportunity. Brandon Hance: Yes, I was shocked.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. I have sat through countless pitches with Ivy League grads spewing off intellectual descriptions of the details of their product or service and why it will win in the market. how informed will they be about our product / service?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. Juno provided a free email service. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work. Defensibility in Software. Working at Juno.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise. In general when capital is available take it (provided it’s on the right conditions and from the best people from whom you can raise). My business has a bunch of them, and a lot more users who really depend on our service. Paying customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. She did a bunch of research on it and finally found a small number of safe brands. They don’t see any reason to tax startups and consider it as more of a CraigsList type listing service.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Approximately 33% fail, another third return an approximation of the capital invested and the remaining 33% generate anywhere from 2x to “Google-x return.” Keep your write-ups to a single page. State the anticipated name of your product/service. How will your product/service look like? Mini-Venture Idea Worksheet.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Fellow entrepreneur, Carlo Perez, invited me down to the MarS building, a bit of an incubator built by the government for biotech startups and research, where he shares community space thanks to a government grant of his own. With a team of about 6, Perez’s UKnowA.com served as a lead generator for contractors and other trade services.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. We’ve been very deliberate making services a cost center that focuses on referenceable customers. Pure excitement isn’t either.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Human service organizations encounter challenges on a daily basis when it comes to finding flexible resources for their clients. While they were doing the research for the grant they found HandUp – they were thrilled and relieved this technology already existed and was available free of charge.”. Broome: “First, keep it simple.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Fellow entrepreneur, Carlo Perez, invited me down to the MarS building, a bit of an incubator built by the government for biotech startups and research, where he shares community space thanks to a government grant of his own. With a team of about 9, Perez’s UKnowA.com served as a lead generator for contractors and other trade services.

Startup 56

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 56

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I’m not a morning person; in fact, it’s 2pm as I’m writing this and I’m still in sweat pants, but for this, I’ll gladly be there. He explains how his team adopted archetype research from the gaming industry. Are you going to be able to get there at 8 for his Keynote speech?”

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