Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

In reality, building a solution won’t make it connect with customers, manage competition, or communicate and proselytize the offering in the industry. Outside funding causes loss of control and undue pressure to deliver.” Funding is like a turbocharger for a startup company, if used correctly. Hence the pressure to deliver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. What will set your business apart?

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APRIL 3, 2014

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Sure, you need to be competitive on price. If we just dropped prices to match our less funded competitors we wouldn’t be able to keep innovating and adding value for our clients. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. You’re a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In reality, building a solution won’t make it connect with customers, manage competition, or communicate and proselytize the offering in the industry. Outside funding causes loss of control and undue pressure to deliver.” Funding is like a turbocharger for a startup company, if used correctly. Hence the pressure to deliver.

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APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. For instance, a company-friendly investor will typically only participate in a follow-on funding round beyond their pro rata participation with the Founders’ explicit approval.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products. billion in recurring run-rate revenue and growing while Siebel is sold to Oracle for a mere $5.8 Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. For instance, a company-friendly investor will typically only participate in a follow-on funding round beyond their pro rata participation with the Founders’ explicit approval.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Sure, you need to be competitive on price. If we just dropped prices to match our less funded competitors we wouldn’t be able to keep innovating and adding value for our clients. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. You’re a startup.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

How will the inevitable changes in markets, consumer behaviors, and competitive offerings affect outcomes? As you work your way through your plan, watch out for the common mistakes described in our article, Why Business Plans Don’t Get Funded. Outcomes: This is your vision of the future outcomes if things go according to plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Focus simply means launching your first and most memorable initiative where you see a unique skill and experience fit, your best competitive positioning with the least risk, and the greatest potential return. Your business model determines cash-flow, staffing, and funding required. Realistically characterize the competition.

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MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. In all my time investing I have never seen such a senior revenue officer join a company at this stage. Why Invest?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

The same is true of Twitter, and as a VC I would personally never fund a company that looked to simply plug a functional gap in Twitter. Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft. So how does this all relate to the upcoming Twitter Chirp conference next week?

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