Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. There is no free lunch. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. Install a real board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

In order to combat the losses of traditional jobs we invested in education and training and public infrastructure that enabled the growth of the middle class. And they will eat our lunch. Intuitively we know that trade is important and that lower-income jobs should go to regions with the lowest cost labor. And that somebody is China.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

I think some of this stems from the early days of Twitter when it was presumed that it was a technology to tell people what you ate for lunch. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The event is an excellent educational and networking opportunity that will help industry newcomers and veterans understand the latest changes in the industry according to the executive decision makers in well known and established companies. 1:30pm Lunch. Schedule: 10am Check-in & Coffee Hour. 11am Opening Remarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. There is no free lunch. In his recent book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. In his recent book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. You’re there to leave an impression – not to educate. for the same reason try not to be first after lunch. They simply need to know: who has a problem? how are you solving this problem?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. There is no free lunch. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. Install a real board of directors.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. Weekly fireside breakouts , collaborative lunches, and brainstorming sessions. of the run rate came from foreign companies. Aggregate Run Rate for the batch was $21M/yr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

According to one study , only 45% of Founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Weinfurter, who has made the leap a couple of times himself, and spent many years consulting with other companies who have done the same. There is no free lunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We caught up with Satish to learn more about the company and its products. What's your background, and how did the company start? So, we launched the company, and started getting revenues, which we've been feeding into overall product development. What is Clorder? Satish Varm: Clorder is short for cloud ordering.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Many other great companies are not. - It’s no wonder many companies don’t get good coverage.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. I’m used to that refrain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

If your company is successful and valuable people generally do what you ask. There wasn’t any such thing as skipping the line or raising money to start a tech company. Try managing a diverse team of people with different ages, education levels, incomes and motivations.” We had a lot of post-game lunches together.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. Big companies rejected me outright or gave me a courtesy interview before rejecting me. Here’s one possible explanation – Job titles in a startup mean something different than titles in a large company. Kanye West. Advisory Board.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot.

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