socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. We had the idea to rent out a local school over spring break, put up a website ad, and start offering classes. It gave us the confidence to rent space for classes and form a school.

Startup 242

Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. All other board functions are secondary. Shareholders such as the investors are granted few rights by law.

Class 179

Class Coach Invest Sales 179

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Neither class of people should give up easily. Most VCs are book smart.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

If your goal is a large national corporation with more than 100 investors, and multiple classes of stock, you might prefer a C-Corp or S-Corp. Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. The most common business entity used for startups is a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), which is the cheapest and simplest to manage.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

I previously wrote about LaunchTN’s second-phase master accelerator class called The TENN, which has a proven track record of helping startups thrive after graduation from an accelerator. Bringing an accelerators’ graduates back as mentors provides value to the next class, certainly. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors.

Startup 100

Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Pink Floyd recorded DSOTM after a year of writing and performing the material in front of live audiences. Any time will do."

Startup 269

Startup Cloud Computing RSS Writing 269

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. I was not disapointed.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

3) I’ve heard some great stories about your weekend sales “boot camps.” We hired people who did not have outside sales experience. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. We quintupled our sales per sales person and reduced our acquisition costs by 80% during that (boot camp) period.”.

Summary 246

Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. ” Who cut you in on their bonus because even though you’re “just an sales engineer” they know you really deserved more credit for this deal. Writing a book will be fun. After 6 months – you know.

CTO Hire 320

CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The ones who are doing it feverishly are a small niche of people, which really is all of the grocery bloggers today, who figure out what is on sale, what coupons are also available, and stack those coupons on top of those sales. The cover several regions, figuring out what''s on sale, what coupons there are, and match them up.

Mobile 140

Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. ” I know it sounds obvious.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

Startup 96

Startup Writing Metrics Marketing 96

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Journalists aren’t going to write about you all the time unless you’re Facebook. Use it as an excuse to get a journalist to write about you. Good PR will help you punch above your weigh class. What a shame.&#.

Startup 329

Startup Press Training Media 329

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). 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. PHONE CALLS.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. Both are basically people businesses. It doesn’t seem fair.

Venture Capital 319

Venture Capital Startup Sales Customer 319

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Business Sales Techniques. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

Course 97

Course Writing Slides Email 97

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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. Also, it’s harder to pay a $30 million pre-money value on an unproved company when you see public companies with $100 million in sales trading for less than $20 million.

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Startup Invest Funding 263

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2011

Business Writing Skills. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Business Sales Techniques. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Throughout a career lifetime, just think of the return on that investment.

Course 91

Course Writing Social Network Ideas 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Metrics 91

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. Never ask a tech community for feedback when your true intent is to close a sale. Note: Rincon Venture Partners is an investor in Launchpad LA, but otherwise has no affiliation with Divshot.).

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

To produce content that people want to watch takes unique skills: Writing. You simply can’t replicate the world-class skills of LA through technology. And production is where Hollywood beats Silicon Valley. Set design. Post-Production. And production matters. Build Direct Relationships with Customers.

Company 339

Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). Now the AP class. Straightforward.

Funding 150

Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market. They are often bound by geographies and asset classes. I believe that. You know what I’m talking about.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Something to write your notes, another to set reminders, and one that does both. No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. We’ve been there. We’ve all been there.

Product 99

Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. Or what about your sales team? Before that he was a US senator. Call on me. I know the answer.”

Entrepreneur 370

Entrepreneur Startup Press Venture Capital 370

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The competition is set up to award $50,000 to the best team each year, and is also tied to a class on entrepreneurship for engineering students. The outside mentors can then help them in making projections, looking into their marketing and business development plans, and look at sales projections and organization.

Competition 154

Competition Southern California Mentor USC 154

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. Write it down…. We subscribe to the same philosophy.”.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2010

Business Writing Skills. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Business Sales Techniques. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Throughout a career lifetime, just think of the return on that investment.

Course 53

Course Writing Ideas Class 53

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. There are other classes of equity investors for small or early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators.

Equity 156

Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. Those are the two main criteria.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I also tell people that if they do go to make sure that they don’t spend all of their free time trying to graduate top of their class. Sales is the lifeblood of every organization. This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Thanks to our Sponsors!

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Bobby’s strong sales acumen, genuine charisma and leadership abilities make him an invaluable asset to the founding team. Jenna can write a recommendation on Andy’s profile or send an email to friends recommending Andy, one of his workout plans or the fitness event she’s registered for. How many users? What is your business model?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92