Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

I’ve tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you’re at in the journey. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

According to SGL, developers can now submit their apps for review and have their press releases and updates distributed on the Stained Glass Labs website, which gives them the quick feedback from other developers and the ability to submit press releases, which are sent to members of the media interested in Google Glass and wearable technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

Full press release with more details is here. Help these companies get funded and let them know that if they stayed in LA there was an ecosystem to support them. On the funding, business creation, business development fronts I think we did quite well. Today we announced Launchpad LA V2. How’d we do?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. So if all I need to do is make some customer calls, interview potential employees or help with his fund-raising decks – hallelujah. Assigns tasks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Yet their next fund had Facebook in it. And Coach Campbell.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. It is not uncommon for a board to learn about the CEOs fund-raising activities by having a friend forward a press article announcing a raise or the “leak” of a fund raising.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Key Events include: June 14-16: Hackathon presented by AT&T will gather a few hundred developers, coaches, and business professionals who will create startup pitches at ROC Santa Monica. At least 100 companies secured funding of at least $1 million, and 43 were acquired. In 2012 over $3.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We like to hire people and fund people who are deeply ethical and we try to be long-term in our investment thinking. This is something I try to coach against. He had a sense of purpose and everybody knew what it was.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

That doesn’t mean that everyone needs to participate in creating the typical marketing hype, or needs to face the press on a regular basis. For example, as a member of an angel investment group, I sometimes do some “due diligence” on promising startups looking for funding. Provide cross-functional mentoring and coaching.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. So I find that less “management” happens at these firms.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. It was not immediately clear how much LifeSci Advisors and the other sponsors are paying to fund the program. Participants will also be paired with coaches and will network for board seats after the course is over.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

We are judging how well you are coached on stage. And for the record, GRP has funded YC alum. I like to debate with them how they will land customers and how they deal with the press. I don’t think they serve investors well. I feel like I’m attending theater rather than looking for deals. Do you have good quips?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Trevor is a highly successful serial entrepreneur and success coach who has studied this phenomenon for many years, including the latest findings in neuroscience. I’ve seen it too often in real life, and it was reinforced to me a while back in a book by Trevor Blake, “ Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

We are judging how well you are coached on stage. And for the record, GRP has funded YC alum. I like to debate with them how they will land customers and how they deal with the press. And that fund raising is part of the job of being an entrepreneur – not something that gets in the way of your doing your job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2012

Trevor is a highly successful serial entrepreneur and success coach who has studied this phenomenon for many years, including the latest findings in neuroscience. I’ve seen it too often in real life, and it was reinforced to me recently when I read a new book by Trevor Blake, “ Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life.”

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Right now we offer one-on-one physical therapy online in California, and we’re offering health coaching in other states and are expanding our coverage in the coming weeks. Early growth in visits is running at 100%, month over month, per Carmy. ” “We really believe in building a clinical-first company,” she adds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I now observes the fund raising process as a profession. This is the fund raising perspective from both sides of the table. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. Executive Summary.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Planning and dealing with extra-ordinary events: M&A, fund raising, crises. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Mentorship.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. As they become more senior they take on management responsibilities such as planning, forecasting, pipeline reviews, coaching staff, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2016

I see this a lot in funding where an entrepreneur has struggled to raise money and spends all his or her time lamenting how lame investors are. If my objective is raising capital and I’m struggling, what can I learn about those who do get funded and how can I improve my odds by changing me ?” We all have self doubt and anxiety.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

I see this a lot in funding where an entrepreneur has struggled to raise money and spends all their time lamenting how lame investors are. “If my objective is raising capital and I’m struggling, what can I learn about those who do get funded and how can I improve my odds by changing?” You raised your seed funds.

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