Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a classic book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Competition. Think broadly here, like planes versus trains.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Due to this, seed rounds have become more competitive, with more expensive valuations and more oversubscribed rounds. At the same time, more capital continues to be raised in LA. has been raised by VC funds and at least $35B has been invested in LA startups from outside the city (Amplify, The Los Angeles Tech and Venture Scene 2019).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value. Project your cash burn rate to keep at least 18 months between venture capital or angel investments. Calculate investment amounts and timing.

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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. In my career I’ve been a consultant, a tech book author, started a training company, and I’ve been an employee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. From an investor perspective, understanding and acting early to establish a sustainable competitive advantage, and barrier to entry, is the best assurance of a financial return. Expert in your chosen domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. Should any money go to PR at all?

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2019

I'm a scientist by training, and after leaving the bench I'm now looking at life sciences companies and medical device companies. How did you get into venture capital, and how did you make that leap from scientist to venture capital? How long have you been at OCV Partners? What were you doing as a scientist?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. The reality is that their core business is not venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. From an investor perspective, understanding and acting early to establish a sustainable competitive advantage, and barrier to entry, is the best assurance of a financial return. Expert in your chosen domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2019

That’s why venture capital investors often replace startup CEOs as a condition of their scale-up investment. That’s why so many startups plateau after gaining some initial traction, and are run over or acquired by their competition. At best, they hire “helpers” rather than help, and are too busy to train the helpers.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. Did they do a major training program? You need to listen to your product team, watch your competition and work hard on determining whether you’re truly providing value to your customers. Sales Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

But what chapped my hide was that every early assignment at Accenture they divided teams, training and assignments into “technical” and “non technical.” I talked with a few VCs and batted around the idea of becoming a VC. No prizes for guessing how my VC chats went. She was paid 15% more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens. One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In addition, successful consumer ventures serve extremely large and lucrative markets, making them attractive for MBA’s driven by out-sized outcomes. Consumer-facing ventures also rely on complex logistics and hyper-efficient distribution channels. In addition, Moderna Therapeutics, a mRNA biotech startup, has raised nearly $2 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

while acknowledging that San Fran deals are often higher valuations due to increased competition amongst investors. For me I think that investors have got to accept the new reality in pricing if they want to remain competitive in markets like we’re seeing now. I’m a VC so I have an obvious bias. It was early 2000.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

“President Biden is calling on Congress to make smart investments in research and development, manufacturing and regional economic development, and in workforce development to give our workers and companies the tools and training they need to compete on the global stage.” ” Climate resiliency . .

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Tech.Co

JUNE 1, 2017

Or do you take the risk and potentially hit it big before anyone else has jumped on board the cannabis train? As a poker player turned venture capitalist, James Conlon, a partner at Bullpen Capital knows a thing or two about risk. So as an investor, what do you do? The Unique Risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2017

That’s why venture capital investors often replace startup CEOs as a condition of their scale-up investment. That’s why so many startups plateau after gaining some initial traction, and are run over or acquired by their competition. At best, they hire “helpers” rather than help, and are too busy to train the helpers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2014

That’s why venture capital investors often replace startup CEOs as a condition of their scale-up investment. That’s why so many startups plateau after gaining some initial traction, and are run over or acquired by their competition. At best, they hire “helpers” rather than help, and are too busy to train the helpers.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

Sound Organization: financially healthy and operationally viable, with strong funder relationships, well-trained staff and reliable systems and infrastructure. In many ways, you act as a venture capital firm, with returns measured in impact, rather than profits. ABC''s approach is refreshing, but not altogether shocking.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Entrepreneurs are increasingly trained to think convertible debt is better (when it’s not always the case). You then get a big VC to invest at a high price and you realize that means your angels are going to be unhappy with how much they own of your company after the financing relative to what they THOUGHT they would own.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2014

The difference here, is the quick injection of capital and guidance to create bullet train-like growth. One would think the application, interview, and highly competitive acceptance are the most intense parts of building a startup in an accelerator. Build, fail, learn, and improve FAST.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Finally I realized that Venture Capital and Angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. From an investor perspective, understanding and acting early to establish a sustainable competitive advantage, and barrier to entry, is the best assurance of a financial return. Expert in your chosen domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2012

That’s why venture capital investors often replace startup CEOs as a condition of their scale-up investment. That’s why so many startups plateau after gaining some initial traction, and are run over or acquired by their competition. At best, they hire “helpers” rather than help, and are too busy to train the helpers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. Talking about whether to raise more money or not, their VC allegedly said to them: “If you had more capital, could you get to the future faster? I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

This applies to both founders and to VC’s that work with them. By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition. It might tell you that you need better sales training or to hone your key selling messages. A quick example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a recent book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Competition. Think broadly here, like planes versus trains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

From my perspective, projecting financial returns is part of the homework every business person needs to do in sizing customer opportunity, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value, before expending their own resources in a highly risky venture. For investors, it’s more of a credibility and intelligence test.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That’s why venture capital investors often replace startup CEOs as a condition of their scale-up investment. That’s why so many startups plateau after gaining some initial traction, and are run over or acquired by their competition. At best, they hire “helpers” rather than help, and are too busy to train the helpers.

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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. On Losing in VC. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. They had a team trained up in Documentum and we certainly had enemies from the inside.

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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. On Losing in VC. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. They had a team trained up in Documentum and we certainly had enemies from the inside.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Packaging, pricing & discounts – In the early days of my first company we always had “list prices&# we quoted to customers and of course we were always willing to negotiate based on who the client was, how important the business was to us, who the competition was and how well the deal was negotiated. We called it PUCCKA.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Unfortunately he didn’t own a car so, in order to visit her, he had to shell out a lot of money each weekend on expensive train tickets. Any competition back home? All over Europe, there are hundreds of carpooling platforms at a regional level but actually we believe that our biggest competition comes from bus and train companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a recent book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Competition. Think broadly here, like planes versus trains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value.

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