Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. million Raised.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It’s a fun company, but customer acquisition is the biggest challenge we face. We have 34,000 customers already, but we need more more more. Throughout the day, I typically refresh our new customer tracking to see how many new customers have been booked for the day. This week has been amazing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson: The story behind the company, is we're trying to solve a real world problem. My cofounder and I know how hard it is to get a company up and running, and funded, to keep your investors in the loop. The company was about to close their Series B funding, and the company had just launched the website.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

In a move to improve protect data for firms, business transaction company CapLinked has today announced that it will offer military-strength protection to its clients data-in-transit. CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. I know the product intimately and it rocks.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Yes, there is the mythical company you all heard about that walked into Sequoia and had a term sheet 24 hours later. But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Geni.com beget Yammer.

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JULY 29, 2010

I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. Down rounds are psychologically really difficult on companies and can make it harder to do later rounds. In the video I also covered why you shouldn’t raise too much money too early in your company’s existence. I eventually needed more money.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I think our customers will appreciate it. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I think our customers will appreciate it. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com). Now, you don't have to go to Twitter to listen, LinkedIn to listen, your email inbox, find contacts in Google Contacts, or even Yammer or Hootsuite. Everything is in one place.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

But what if you’re a credit card company and you want to know where to find your next customers? Already 2/3rds of our customers are ingesting 2 or more data sources including Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, Bit.ly and so on and we do private implementations with the likes of Yammer and others. should I go Audi or BMW?

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MARCH 22, 2010

When you are selected you share the stage with 49 other companies (in the case of TechCrunch50. Most people pay attention to the first 5 companies. By company 22 it’s hard to remember what any of them did. If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. .

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

In all my time investing I have never seen such a senior revenue officer join a company at this stage. To watch a young company win 1,000+ seat deals at Global 100 companies at this stage of development has been simply stunning. If you’re a consumer software company your buyer is your user. The reason is simple.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

Nearly every company faces its crisis moments and only through the inspiration , focus and dedication of the leadership can you motivate teams to dig in deep and come out the other side stronger. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. They fund people with no customers. ON LEADERSHIP. ON SUCCESS.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Initially their only customers are people who can get by on the reduced functionality or perhaps don’t have the money to spend on the expensive product. Here’s what I mean. It’s remarkable. Innovator’s Dilemma.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack. For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category.

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