Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I attended events.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I attended events.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

As the Global Customer Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, with implementation roles at many other companies, she makes a host of relevant observations for every business owner. These days, customers remember the total experience with a company longer than they remember the price they paid. Pursue strategic alliances and partnerships.

Examples 67

Examples Customer Custom Software Review 67

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. This is a term indicating the use of “crowd appeal” to get money from interested people on the Internet for a share of your company. Osmosis marketing. Super-angels. Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

What I want to talk about today is one of the insider baseball discussions of our industry this past week: The odd fact of the $500 million financing round completed just before the company sold for a B. Let’s say your company is currently valued at $15 million. Was this a good thing? Christin goes on. You are not Instagram.

Venture Capital 316

Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. One of the concepts we came up with, and bounced around with Best Buy, was a whole new, independent company to help consumers with technology. Are there any links between Best Buy and the service?

Incubator 239

Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 15, 2011

As these companies grew and matured, the agenda shifted from one focused on small and medium-sized businesses to one representing more established companies. This is not about paying lip-service to helping small companies — it’s about the genuine representation of their needs and interests in Washington D.C.”

TCVN 113

TCVN Technology AeA Press 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy. Maximize cash flow.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Sales 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take.

Statistics 415

Statistics Startup Report Research 415

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy. Maximize cash flow.

Startup 94

Startup Outsource Development Sales Social Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2012

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do protect yourself. Strategic partner. Who is right?

Startup 97

Startup Patents Sample Ideas 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her new book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy. Maximize cash flow.

Tips 92

Tips Startup Services Outsource Development 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2013

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do to protect yourself. Strategic partner. Who is right?

Ideas 92

Ideas Demand Patents Entrepreneur 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2011

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do protect yourself. Strategic partner. Who is right?

Patents 90

Patents Sample Ideas Entrepreneur 90

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The idea for exploreB2B resulted from my own experience in business development for a young consulting company and my brother’s enthusiasm for tech and social media. These articles are sorted into industries and categories. An expert system with “Expert” status in a chosen category (through published content and recommendations).

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2010

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do protect yourself. Strategic partner. Who is right?

Startup 48

Startup Patents Sample Entrepreneur 48

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

This entry focuses on how you can minimize your cost per customer acquired by systematically establishing the infrastructure necessary to track the results obtained from a variety of online and offline marketing vehicles. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

He taught me, amongst other things, the benefit of “ top down thinking &# that changed the way I analyzed markets, companies and people. We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. See, Mark, in a booming market you can never tell the winners from the losers.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x

Funding 150

Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

And most companies don’t do enough between board meetings. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! I found that too often it was an update meeting for investors rather than a meeting for my company to get value. But that isn’t what this post is about.

Startup 301

Startup Venture Capital Software Review Email 301

Both Sides of the Table

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.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343