Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. A day after I published this Changing Structure of VC article I noticed at least one “Angel Prorata Fund” on AngelList. All investors should be considered exactly that.

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Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. For investors life is no different.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

This weekend, much of academia and industry involved in cancer will gather in Chicago for the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology conference. The only remaining daptomycin patent will expire in June, clearing the way for generic competition years earlier than expected. —A Bay Area biotech warhorse is cashing it in.

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San Diego Patents Acquisition News 62

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

They trust the judgment of the VCs to source, finance, help manage and then create some sort of exit for the investments that they make. So by offering convertible debt you can avoid a price discussion in the same way that angel investors sometimes do in order to win competitive early-stage deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” Page 3: Competition.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I favor the more cautious approach, and would offer the following insights to help you make the right decisions: Join a startup or take a role in an existing business. Every industry organization has regular local meetings and annual conferences for education purposes and bringing the right people together.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. There is no competition.

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