Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. The mistake entrepreneurs make is either writing a lengthy email (everybody has too much email so it will get skimmed / not digested) or not having a deck which means the VC can’t quickly determine his or her fit as a potential investor. The key is WHAT you send.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

In the course of one meeting, I observed the following trifecta of stupidity. During the course of our meeting, some of the mid-level executives chuckled over the fact that they had recently extended the length of the prompt a user heard prior to leaving a voicemail message. Sadly, I was right.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2010

It is not uncommon for successful entrepreneurs to work as a team, take some time off for a victory lap or two and then “get the band back together” in order to build upon their prior successes. Thus, care should be taken when crafting the band’s reunion tour to ensure they do not inadvertently run afoul of third-party IP rights.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2014

Signaling — An NDA puts other parties on notice that your IP is valuable, not lightly shared, and that you intend to defend it and your business. That said, NDAs should never take the place of solid IP protection. And never use them when talking to VCs. They are an extra layer of security, not substitutes. appeared first on TechZulu.

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JUNE 5, 2015

Of course investors care about controls (board, protective provisions, IP assignments, non-solicitation) but these are all pretty standard. What I’ve found over the years is that this forces way more clarity on the entrepreneurs at fund raising time. Those are the big three. So let’s simplify down to: Ownership %.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

John Greathouse , Entrepreneur, Investor, Professor and Freshman In The School Of Life. I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans. Listing a variety of bread-and-butter IP protection tactics would not have been as compelling. I encourage emerging entrepreneurs to utilize Quora.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Of course you could start your own company. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” ” (Warren Buffett).

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It’s the nature of most entrepreneurs, honestly. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up? A great CFO will make sure you’re accurately measuring your CAC (along with a great marketer, of course) and your LTV. Legal threats from other IP holders? It’s the norm more than you think. Timing of cash payments.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. If taking part-time evening courses is not possible, seek out an online curriculum. As noted in Frugal is as Frugal Does , entrepreneurs on The Fringe only spend their cash on items that add value to their adVentures. Money Is Time.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. Of course a lot of this also comes down to investor trust.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Over the course of that, we thought about what the solution might be. What we wanted to do, was focus on the high IP content, where there is a high barrier to entry. Back then, it was only 3.6 We saw that very clearly in our trials. That was maybe in the 2003/2004 time frame. That's the core of our strategy.

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Networking Startup Software Tips 153

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

As we did not require users to sign in, we were forced to correlate IP addresses with company names, which, in 1999, was an inexact and very manual science. In the course of a few months, despite the cumbersome sales cycle, we finalized deals with a number of former BuddyHelp users including CompUSA, Blackbaud and Cox.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. I had been a young, entrepreneurial person, but I had been in voice-over-IP an real time communications for more than a decade. First off, talk about SendLove.to and what is it all about?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

From investments and business, Robin Kaminsky , Entrepreneur in Residence at Rustin Canyon Partners, and former EVP of Publishing at Activision. This is of course, assuming we’re discussing console. Concurrently, Scot also sees an overall pullback on original IP’s. That’s where the scale is, she explains.

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JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. As you have more exits in your startup community and more second-time entrepreneurs the growth of a local startup community becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Venture Capital.

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MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Can’t list them all.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. Conversely I offered the same deal to another entrepreneur who decided to shop around longer.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. 0:28:00) & (0:31:27).

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