Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. To provide an opportunity for VCs and senior executives to engage with the community by giving back rather than just attending more cocktail parties.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Strategic partner” investors: If you can find a strategic partner willing to invest in your enterprise, consider it a blessing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group.

Entrepreneur 143

Entrepreneur Social Network Activity Networking 143

Berkonomics

APRIL 28, 2012

This important variation on “money talks” is an important consideration for entrepreneurs when seeking an investment from professionals such as VC’s. Something like a marriage (and often lasting just as long statistically), your investment partner can be a great cheerleader, coach and resource.

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Coach Venture Capital Statistics News 174

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? I believe that the most important thing for tech companies will be to turn inward and create mature leadership and organizations that can handle growth. We continue to have a steady stream of industry and thought leaders raising their hands to be mentors for our upcoming cohorts.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Coach 157

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Email 336

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

Southern California has the one of the largest gathering of organized angel investment groups, and a huge crop of startup accelerators: there's only one problem, which is they don't naturally work together. With the VC ranks shrinking, founders need to tap every source of capital out there.

Angel 174

Angel Southern California Pasadena Angels Coach 174

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. This applies to both founders and to VC’s that work with them.

Startup 308

Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group.

Networking 90

Networking Entrepreneur Social Network Activity 90

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

You’re on a first date with a VC – how much should you tell them? When is it appropriate for a VC to call your customers? There is no universal answer and my discussions with various VCs on these topics have yielded many differing opinions. Another VC called the co-founder & tech head – Parker Harris.

Technical Review 316

Technical Review Venture Capital Customer Custom 316

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Your goal should be to turn your VCs into extended members of your team to get real value from them. 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. What Rob wrote in his post is right.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

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. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. how to build an initial sales organization. In the Early Days.

Startup 325

Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode.

Startup 140

Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 140

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. How is it you made it to $100M in revenues without outside investment?

Diamond Bar 169

Diamond Bar Customer Custom Organization 169

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group.

Networking 63

Networking Social Network Activity Entrepreneur 63

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We'll talk more about that, but what we do is bring the data cloud to life through licensed professional coaches, who understand the incentives of behavior change, and meet participants where they are, through three or four occasional recommendations each month. The second thing I learned as a VC, is that data paralyzes people.

Coach 100

Coach Startup Study Venture Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group.

Networking 100

Networking Entrepreneur Social Network Activity 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

But I would posit that in order to sustainably build great products in an intensely competitive industry with skills shortages – people management is one of the most critical soft skills organizations need. I have seen it first-hand in my VC career many, many times. I see it all the time. And, yes, it is politics at its purest.

Startup 340

Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group.

Activity 97

Activity Networking Entrepreneur Startup 97

Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

The discussion came to a boil earlier this year after a small New York investment bank hired scantily-clad women to attend its cocktail party at the J.P. But not all costs: Attendees are on the hook for about $4,000, according to organizers.) percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found.

Training 40

Training Class Organization Course 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. On Losing in VC. Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. On Losing in VC. Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Managing Director of Miramar Venture Partners. Maneesh works with Miramar portfolio companies to identify growth drivers, potential business partners and evaluate prospective investment opportunities. Maneesh’s prior investing experience includes an associate position at El Dorado Ventures. He joined Miramar in 2006.

Orange County 106

Orange County Miramar Startup Tech Coast Angels 106

Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. With the VC ranks shrinking, founders need to tap every source of capital out there. It’s not getting easier to find capital, particularly for A rounds.

Angel 49

Angel Pasadena Angels Venture Capital Pasadena 49

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group.

Networking 97

Networking Startup Activity Entrepreneur 97

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We’ve worried together about the moral obligation implicit in taking such investments from people so close, even with their promise never to expect a return. There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company.

Equity 156

Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. Making Things Happen.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). We met everybody in the organization. Somebody had gotten to somebody senior in the Thames organization. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. But we worked the account tirelessly for months.

Startup 151

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

Seth is one of the most decent human beings in the venture industry so the rant was off base. But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration. I don’t know if I should keep investing in them. It’s why YPO is such an important organization.

Startup 371

Startup Press Blogging Entrepreneur 371

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building.

Startup 352

Startup Help Blogging Entrepreneur 352