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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. Or if you’re pinched on time the summary is below and the time coding can help you watch a brief snippet on topics that interest you. 26:44 Too much capital is not good. 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. Little money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

I like the summary of the competitive reality in a new book, “ Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age ,” by Ram Charan, who relates a wealth of current experience from global clients: Customers expect a personalized experience. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem. These tolerate negative cash flows for growth.

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Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

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APRIL 13, 2011

Or, as always, summary notes available below. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. But, in fact, I would rather have an executive summary than a pitch deck. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. In the case of Invoca we led both the seed round and the A round and didn’t wait for somebody else to come and provide more capital. Over the past 2.5

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

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APRIL 13, 2013

You would never sell to one department and then trust them to manage all of the relationships with other departments who have to use your software. In summary, VC partnerships are like any organization. Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice' It’s best to think of your VC partnership as a customer.

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Venture Capital Summary Organization Entrepreneur 309

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? Have you raised capital? Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. If you primary questions right now are how to raise capital, that's not us. How Does it Work? Who's the customer? Who are the main competitors?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? Have you raised capital? Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. If you primary questions right now are how to raise capital, that's not us. How Does it Work? Who's the customer? Who are the main competitors?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

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JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. get out and raise money now because when markets change they change on a dime and capital completely dries.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. Don’t get caught off guard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. Don’t get caught off guard.

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Outsource Development Outsource Startup Summary 104

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APRIL 19, 2011

Or read the quick, informative summary below the image! What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#. Here’s a summary of our interview.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. Don’t get caught off guard.

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Outsource Development Outsource Entrepreneur Startup 92

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MAY 21, 2019

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. Summary Boards are organizations that need managing just as you would do for your management team. Below is just the highlight points. How Do Boards Get Out of Sync?

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Startup Slides Venture Capital Course 234

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). Did we miss a big story over the holidays?

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Southern California Technical Review SoCal San Diego 168

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MAY 4, 2010

Some summary notes are below. Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. AppDynamics.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Internet scale. Not necessarily.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

” If you don’t read any more of the post, the summary lesson learned for entrepreneurs is this: Product-centric founders often over-intellectualize their communications and therefore fail to sell their concepts to the masses. Just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s not software. WTF does that even mean?

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Entrepreneur Startup Press Venture Capital 370

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. In summary … A few great hands is all it takes to win big.

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MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work.

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Software Startup Tool Platform 234

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APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. “How much is that software really worth?

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. When they''re in there, they put in a summary of an athlete. We''re enabling those coaches to connect to one another and find athletes. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.

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Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. Here is a summary of each: Complementary strengths allows extended market penetration. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. All this was done without damaging anyone’s credibility, or stealing customers.

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Startup Outsource Development Examples Customer 103

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: Saban Ventures kicked off early this year. where he is Chairman.

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Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. And so is venture capital. Summary: Team Leadership skills, operating knowhow and industry knowledge are all tremendously important. The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Commitment.

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software — voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design. If you’re a consumer software company your buyer is your user. Why Invest? The reason is simple.

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

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JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Overall, venture capital investment fell in the United States last year but rose elsewhere. These include chips, computers, software, telecom, and the Internet. Hone your executive summary.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Summary 90

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. My Summary on getting access will be to tell you what most people don’t want to hear. I won’t say never but having a team validates that you can attract people to the cause. Product : You should build a product or a prototype.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. Stable Capital Amongst the hardest things to find when one raises a new fund is ability to have stable capital. We lived that first hand.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Invest Funding 150

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MARCH 11, 2011

Summary notes, as always, provide below. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. He bought a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 (a predecessor to Excel for those youngens) and programmed his own accounting software for his business.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. The video can be watched here , but there is a most excellent summary below provided by John Excley.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

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MARCH 22, 2010

I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. Summary: Journalists are people.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210