Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I speak at conferences where I might meet 75-100 people and have conversations. I have Twitter chats, respond to blog comments, trade emails, respond to comments on This Week in VC. I thought that was a cool idea. What that means is that in a typical week I might see 10-15 new company pitches. Sometimes more. I remember.

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Venture Capital Blogging Conference Email 288

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Yet I recommend to every entrepreneur that there are still situations where an NDA (sometimes called Confidential Disclosure Agreement) makes sense compared to normal situations, where your risk of losing an investor or advisor is greater than the risk of your idea being compromised. Never disclose trade secrets without a contract.

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Technical Review Patents Ideas Social Media 61

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese is one of the keynote speakers at the Recurring Revenue Conference. Where's Blackline today, in terms of size? You can predict your revenues within a margin of error within time.

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SaaS Conference Customer Custom 100

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. This year, the annual Hospitality Technology conference was held in Austin. They were IN the conference center?” By: Seth Epstein.

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Marketing Conference Startup Santa Barbara 230

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

A great trade! We will collaborate on ideas and projects and we created the Superfriends together, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA.

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Social Network Networking Yahoo Social Media 180

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. We get it! I Be specific. Tesla is not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

I sat on two panels in the past week – once at LeadsCon (** see appendix if you’re interested in a back story here) and today at the America’s Growth Capital conference. Tip : It is always a good idea to save time on the panel for audience questions. People at the conference become aware of who you are.

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Startup Conference Venture Capital Tips 284

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

A great trade! We will collaborate on ideas and projects. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA. We are expecting a full house!

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

For those who may be new to Pubcon its an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

SEO 64

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The idea came from having been recently married herself and seeing how expensive it can be to buy a new wedding dress. If you want traffic you need to learn the tricks of the trade. Style Trader takes women’s closets and turns them into virtual bazaars of clothes that can be traded with other women.

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Where did the idea come from? That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat. Jonathan Lehmann: I'm originally from Paris.

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UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. In his book he talked about mavens as being those people who are connected and through whom ideas spread faster. He had been asking me to speak at his conference Startup Grind. I get asked to speak at lots of conference but sadly can’t do most of them.

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Networking Startup CTO Coach Email 366

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

For those who may be new to Pubcon its an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

SEO 40

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2016

Data from a hematology conference stoked dreams of approval, though still on a far horizon, for a couple drug makers. Convicted in 2003 of several felony charges related to insider trading, he is barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company. You think a Game 7 in the NBA Finals is going to be epic?

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News Technical Review Conference Report 55

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

But considering the huge number of collaborative efforts, contacts, and great run-ins we experienced at this year’s little black sheep of a tech conference, in Austin, TX; we couldn’t possibly leave all the laundry out to dry. Nevertheless, it was fantastic showcase of new ideas and a glimpse into the future of tech.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

If money is tight, you can trade babysitting with friends. Even when you are tired and don’t feel like going out, once you are out you breathe deeply and realize it’s a good idea. I love the idea of a Digital Sabbath. He usually says no to weekend conferences and events. You need couple time.

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Tips Startup Email Blogging 418

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

My previous company did production runs for small clothing lines, promos, and trade show giveaways, and one of the things we realized it's such a volume industry, and the technology of screen printing has been around for 10,000 years, developed by the Egyptians and the Chinese. What's your background and how did you get into this?

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Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene. With a team of about 6, Perez’s UKnowA.com served as a lead generator for contractors and other trade services. In fact, this was only one of several fun side projects that the team has tackled after pub discussions around ideas.

Startup 109

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 109

socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2017

Ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week, we are chatting with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space. What's the idea behind SnackNation? Sean Kelly: We think of ourselves as Snacking-as-a-Service. Is there a way to learn from others' mistakes and successes?

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Entrepreneur Services Sales Customer 124

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

6) Y our Company’s success squarely resides on consumers’ willingness to trade personal data for enhanced services and discounts. Users who will not trade personal info will remain unwilling. Jeff and Brian are informal and very generous with ideas, input and feedback when they have time. Write it down…. Show mastery.

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Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

The goal of allowing your children to create wealth, rather than simply trade their labor for it, is not to make them entrepreneurs. When a venture is conceived, it is merely an idea. As the story illustrates, entrepreneurs manifest their ideas by rallying a motivated team and supplying them with the necessary resources.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Resource 270

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 But even this is changing.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

From local Los Angeles tech events to worldwide conferences and expos. The International CES is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) , the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry. BIL is an un-conference for people changing the world in big ways.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene. With a team of about 9, Perez’s UKnowA.com served as a lead generator for contractors and other trade services. In fact, this was only one of several fun side projects that the team has tackled after pub discussions around ideas.

Startup 56

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 56

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We still need some IPOs and some big trade sales to happen to validate the market in a big way. The first one applies to a lot of these types of conferences, regardless of geography, by bringing creative, like-minded people together to share ideas and making connections over interesting subject matters and interesting speakers.

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Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month. So, how much benefit can we really expect from this idea of “natural” interaction? There is a similar example in high-speed stock trading. What are the risks and ethics around AI systems?

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Artificial Inteligence Examples Research Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. He’s been at it since 2005. Many term sheets ensued.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 329

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Investors had grown too used to the idea that any deal you funded would get marked up to a higher valuation in the next round and that’s clearly not always true. FOMO was NOMO. As in no more.

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Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition. It takes both to build a community. Marketing Muscle.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others. Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think about this: The investment banks and trading houses across the globe have invested billions of dollars in computing equipment and staff in order to process news that affects stock prices milliseconds before the rest of the market can process & transact on this same information. A senior Facebook official told us, “Great idea.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

After a few minutes backstage he asked if he could just go out into the main entranceway and talk with anybody who wanted to talk with him and so Glenn, his wife and their team pulled up in a couch in the conference lounge area sat and invited anybody to ask anything. You have no idea who I am or what I believe.

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UCSD Media Writing Startup 280