Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. If you have deep pockets, these ultimately can be very lucrative.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. When should a VC invest? It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. It’s the only way forward in capitalism, and it’s worth every investment you can make. What company should you start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Competitive market forces also can have a large impact on what valuation this company will garner from investors. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. When to start PR? I do it myself. If I can do it – so can you.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The design could hint at what Lime wants to do with its retail store branding. “Lime would have an opportunity to control the narrative, engage with the local community, and invest in Santa Monica. This, of course, comes with risks too, as electric scooters can be dangerous to the novice or uncoordinated.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. ” The Details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Others may indeed make good family businesses, but are usually deemed worth investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

I talked in specifics about a bunch of my investments including Factual , MongoLab , Maker Studios and Gogii (maker of TextPlus ). But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. Yes, the competition going forward will be strong. It’s about 10 minutes long.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Others may indeed make good family businesses, but are usually deemed worth investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. You no longer need to travel to China or hire an expensive prototyping expert to mock up your new design. Building the prototype can be fun. Create and register intellectual property online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Others may indeed make good family businesses, but are usually deemed worth investment.

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Entrepreneur Sites Technical Review Social Media 101

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s the whole basis of my investment philosophy, which I call “ The Entrepreneur Thesis.&#. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. In the end, of course, our productivity actually suffered.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2010

Russell Stern: Most semiconductor companies have to have to do board designs anyway, for reference designs, and to further qualify them, certify them, and get them through agency approvals. Are you still pursuing embedded designs--you were looking at LAN on motherboard last year, as we recall? Russell Stern: We still are.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

That''s a major differentiator in the way we''ve designed this. Of course, we have technology to help us with that, but we offer human intervention to make sure that transactions go smoothly. That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. Bart Molenda: That''s a good question.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

As we move forward in design thinking and innovation, the simplicity, purity and intense curiosity of the child mind may very well hold the key to some of the world’s largest problems.” At age 7, he enrolled at American Ri ever College becoming the youngest student ever to enroll in on campus graded courses at the college.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

As we move forward in design thinking and innovation, the simplicity, purity and intense curiosity of the child mind may very well hold the key to some of the world’s largest problems.” At age 7, he enrolled at American Ri ever College becoming the youngest student ever to enroll in on campus graded courses at the college.

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News Education Social Network Organization 77

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle).

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course? I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” ” Answer: As long as you have scheduled for the design phase. Design with no constraints becomes a research project. Not funny, “ha, ha” but pretty apropos. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If the data held up in wider testing, it could mean that hepatitis C could be cured someday with a short course of pills, without the flu-like symptoms that dogged regimens of the past. “It But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps? We’ve learned a lot from that experience.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Competitive market forces also can have a large impact on what valuation this company will garner from investors. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. Bill doesn’t think you should over invest in them but he does believe in protecting ideas when you have a true invention and many of his companies have done so. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. Shopping.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Competitive market forces also can have a large impact on what valuation this company will garner from investors. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93