Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2011

Are you bored, wanting to be free of a boss, or eager to showcase a hot technology? Examine the marketplace and your competition. Think twice before you invest your precious time, money, and energy, and then go for it! These are not valid reasons to start a business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. Get your Internet domain name and website.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". We have a rigorous screening process, and we only fund the very best programs that are able to quantify their impact. Second, our “investment” in a nonprofit goes well beyond just dollars.

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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. Software products and apps can be quickly wireframed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2014

But the technology to support this exploding industry has taken baby steps to better production, and the learning curve for professional live productions is steeper than most YouTubers can handle. Green screen keying, real time editable lower thirds, no-latency video switching, quicktime video playback and vector scopes come standard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

At any rate, here is my own list of red flags, from my years of experience advising and investing in aspiring entrepreneurs, which cause me to lose interest and start looking for a way out the door: Omit the facts on key management team experience and skills. Terms “paradigm shift” or “disruptive technology” used more than once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. Software products and apps can be quickly wireframed with free tools like MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The AngelSoft Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Out is the “cocktail only&# Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar. We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. Tags: SoCal Stuff LA SoCal startup technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites. Super-angels. Startup pivot.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Louis and Atlanta.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Instead, we do this for about a $1000 for a site, in HD quality, supporting eight to 10 participants on a 48- or 52-inch screen.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Louis and Atlanta.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

At VT KnowledgeWorks we screen prospective clients for their Market opportunity, for the Magic that they offer to their prospective customers, and for the Moxie displayed by the start-up team. At the end of 90 grueling days, they, and other aggressive investors, listen to each start-up’s polished pitch for continuing investment.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

It takes all of the complicated technology out of the equation, and makes it as intuitive as possible. I ended up going to Harvard for college, and worked at JP Morgan in investment banking, and went to Harvard Law School. Hamilton Chan: We provide a platform where brands can go and create a QR code.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Stay on the radar – You need to find a very polite way to persistently be on the top of the radar screen of your VC. You’re just trying to stay on the radar screen. Do a 5-page PowerPoint competitive assessment. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. So how to proceed?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

At Microsoft, she architected several core technologies of the SQL Azure cloud service, most notably the cluster resource management. Bruno Denuit, our CTO, has worked for over ten years on database technologies and cloud services at Microsoft in Redmond. He also architected web-based trading platforms for several investment banks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I invested in a company whose goal is to bring low-cost computing to inner-city schools in America. It’s clear to me that our economic divide is also a technological divide and unless we solve this economic disparity will persist. Some people have said to me, “That’s dumb. Why bother? We’ll all just have iPads in a few years.”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I think we were able to effectively transition, because our technology platform. It was just a matter of process to add iOS, and later, Android to the output, and start designing games for the larger screens, later bringing those games down to run on BREW and Java after that. They've also got some different advantages over others.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. They decided to re-open the competition for 3-4 more weeks. Something happened and it was clear to me that this IE issues was just a smoke screen.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. I live in the city of Santa Monica.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. We have a great screening process. We have strong theses in key technology areas. Take nothing for granted. We are hands on.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Why Invest? And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer. 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

JUNE 13, 2011

This version has some additional details on a portfolio company I’ve invested in, which are disclosed below. Expect big competition in the group messaging market. It was about freeing up content to be displayed on big screens regardless of the source or content type. But shitting our pants? We’re focused.

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