Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. 3. We then addressed competition in the context of SiteAdvisor and how it is important for journalists, customers, and the companies themselves. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

Starting a new business is not an informal process, and should never be treated like a hobby between friends. Mark Zuckerberg can tell you a horror story about how his early informal breakup with a co-founder ultimately cost him a settlement later worth four billion dollars. Give away more equity than required to drive the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Sustainable competitive advantage. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

As a result founders often meet the wrong investors, waste time on those who ask for more information. Keeping it to 8–10 helps you manage the public information flow that will be broader if you see 20 firms and also help you prioritize resources. Any information that creates a compelling next meeting is worth doing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Or read the quick, informative summary below the image! Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. - o Put a timeframe/money – competition in the picture. Here’s a summary of our interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That’s dumb, exaggerated or just ill informed. Jody soon met with Dave McClure who ended up immediately writing a check as a placeholder investment and offering help to get EcoMom press coverage. The ability to show traction is actually the most important piece of information on profiles. It is additive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But this should come by having your mental model of what is correct and only changing it if you can build a new model with new information. You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. They always want opinions even if they don’t necessarily agree with them or aren’t ready to act on the information they learn.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Product managers have challenges with getting the right information at the right level to the right people. Semick: Yeah, right (laughs).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. All of these are false. But let me be even more clear.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The women in the program commit $5,000 and invest as a group of woman in a social venture in exchange for equity. For me, it’s very much showcasing that angel investing is not just writing a check, it’s so much more. NON: I judge a lot of pitch competitions and speak at a lot of conferences. People have to get in the game.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. equity debate. The right way to position against competition - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 23, 2010 This is Part 4 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.?? There is no competition. What’s going to happen in the future?'

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? Sure, theres a wave of new technology solutions that have come into the market that are competitive with DoubleClick, but, they are unproven. If Im a publisher using Google, they already have my customer list, advertising data and revenue information anyway.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Some startup attorneys will accept a portion of their initial fees in the form of equity. When you hit the inevitable bumps in the road, a lawyer who has an equity stake in your business is more likely to be flexible with respect to payment terms and more willing to give you quick, off-the-clock feedback and guidance.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself.

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